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NOVEMBER 
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Drawn  by  Margaret  Halter  (16  Years), 
Maryland 
Pastoral  Parson  and  His  Country  Folks 
By  Rev.  George  B.  Gilbert 
Off  to  St.  Louis.  —  After  many 
changes  of  mind  and  changes  of  route, 
and  even  giving  up  going  altogether  (so 
many  things  at  home  it  seemed  so  hard 
to  leave),  the  Parson  is  finally  off.  We 
have  been  building  a  hen-house  to  con¬ 
nect  two  other  houses,  making  them  all 
into  one  big  one,  and  the  Parson  worked 
on  this  till  the  last  minute ;  till  Mrs. 
Parson  calls  him  and  calls  him,  telling 
him  he  will  never  get  to  the  car  in  time. 
“Shame  to  work  up  to  the  last  minute,” 
she  says.  And  it  is  a  shame,  the  Parson 
admits.  If  we  could  only  get  out  of  this 
rush  and  hurry.  He  has  just  been  read¬ 
ing  in  the  Nation  about  the  Russians; 
how,  when  they  are  to  take  a  train,  they 
utterly  disregard  watches  and  timetables, 
simply  going  to  the  station  early  in  the 
the  Parson  noticed  he  seemed  to  have 
no  idea,  whatsoever  as  to  how  it  was 
going  to  be  done.  He  was  coming  over 
to  stay  at  least  a  year  with  relatives  in 
Cincinnati,  Ohio.  A  good-sized  black 
grip  right  across  the  aisle  seemed  to  be 
keenly  watched  by  its  owner.  A  baby 
could  not  have  received  more  attention. 
By  evening  the  fellow  had  gotten  quite 
bold  with  it,  and  used  the  Pennsy  i*ail- 
road’s  cups  to  pour  out  the  contents  of 
a  large  bottle  and  treat  certain  of  his 
newly-found  acquaintances.  These  seemed 
to  increase  so  rapidly  that  he  went  to 
bed  right  after  six  o’clock  that  there 
might  be  a  little  left  for  himself!  He 
had  left  the  train,  bag,  baggage  and  bot¬ 
tle  before  daybreak.  “.Sleeper?  Pull¬ 
man?”  said  the  attendant  to  the  Parson. 
A  Flock  of  Nubian  Goat  Kids  at  Pasture 
morning  and  parking  there  till  some 
train  comes  along.  In  Russia  it  took 
five  people  one  hour  and  a  quarter  to  get 
one  man’s  breakfast.  You  never  could 
get  the  children  off  to  high  school  in 
these  days  at  that  rate. 
Talking  His  Way.  —  The  first  place 
the  Parson  spoke  was  right  in  Con¬ 
necticut.  The  Congregational  Church  of 
this  village  gives  a  regular  banquet  each 
year,  beautifully  served  by  the  ladies,  to 
all  the  men  and  boys  of  the  locality. 
There  is  no  charge,  no  collection,  not 
even  the  smell  of  bait  or  money ;  cer¬ 
tainly  a  nice  thing  for.  this  church  to  do 
with  no  sputtering  on  the  side  by  the 
church  women  folks.  From  this  place, 
the  Parson  went  to  New  York  City.  How 
handy  the  city-run  bus  is  to  get  down 
to  the  Erie  Railroad  offices.  He  was 
tempted  to  look  ardtmd  a  bit,  as  from  his 
conclusions  he  had  lots  of  spare  time, 
but  he  always  feels  best  to  get  his 
ticket  and  bearings  right  away.  It  cer¬ 
tainly  is  not  a  bad  plan  to  be  a  little 
ahead  of  time,  as  he  found  the  train  for 
the  West  left  an  hour  earlier  than  be 
had  been  led  to  believe.  New  YTork  is  a 
reasonable  place  to  eat  in.  for  he  got  a 
fine  plate  of  beans,  well  cooked,  and 
bread  and  butter  and  custard  pie  for  30 
cents.  He  bought  two  cheese  sandwiches 
to  take  with  him.  (“Sandwiches  going.” 
shouted  the  man).  Dinner  and  supper 
(some  apples  in  the  grip),  50  cents.  That 
was  not  so  bad.  There  were  two  car¬ 
loads  of  immigrants  on  our  train  headed 
for  Chicago.  The  conductor  sputtered 
during  the  night  about  how  two  great 
heavy  N.  II.  cars  were  on  the  rear.  “Those 
New  Hampshire  cars.”  he  said.  This 
was  one  on  the  Parson.  With  50  years 
of  New  England  existence  back  of  him, 
he  had  never  heard  of  the  “New  Hamp¬ 
shire  line.”  He  watched  the  cars  pull 
out,  as  he  left  the  train  next  morning. 
They  were  “N.  H.” — New  Haven  cars ! 
On  this  train  the  Parson  fell  into  con¬ 
versation  with  a  young  fellow  who  proved 
to  be  from  Newcastle.  England.  He  said 
unemployment  and  general  poverty  were 
very  bad  in  England,  but  he  thought  that 
nation  would  weather  the  storm,  though 
Pullman  is  the  better  name  for  they  cer¬ 
tainly  pull  you  and  yank  you  and  back 
you  up,  but  for  the  Parson  at  least,  it 
is  anything  but  a  “sleeper.” 
Lawrence  County,  Pa. — For  a  man 
to  hoe  corn  along  the  row  and  ponder  on 
the  fact  as  he  does  so,  that  there  are  4,- 
000  tons  of  coal  to  the  acre  right  under 
him,  is  quite  an  assurance  against  a 
cold  day  if  not  a  rainy  day.  To  be  sure 
it  is  some  40  ft.  from  the  hoe  to  the 
coal,  but  then  it  is  there,  and  you  get 
15  tons  a  year  free  for  yourself  and  a 
royalty  of  25  to  30  cents  a  ton  if  you 
can  get  somebody  to  come  and  mine  it. 
These  little  soft  coal  mines  are  called 
“wagon  mines,”  because  all  carting  away 
is  done  by  wagon  instead  of  rail.  It 
takes  a  shaft  and  a  “cage”  (elevator) 
and  a  boiler  and  a  hoisting  rig  and  a 
pump  and  your  mine  is  complete.  The 
coal  seemed  extra  good  for  soft  coal,  and 
no  one  burns  anything  else.  You  get 
the  coal  yourself  at  the  mine  for  $5  a 
ton — certainly  cheap  fuel.  At  this  place 
a  little  chain  was  kept  hung  over  the 
stove  door  so  it  could  never  be  shut 
tight  and  this  avoided  danger  of  gas  ex¬ 
plosion. 
The  Steel  Mills.  —  Such  nice  peo¬ 
ple  as  these  were  in  Lawrence  County. 
One  man.  where  the  Parson  housed  most 
of  the  time,  took  him  to  Youngstown 
and  secured  a  pass  to  go  through  one  of 
the  big  steel  plants.  This  city  stands 
second  to  Pittsburgh,  turning  out  $200,- 
000.000  worth  of  steel  a  year.  The  great 
blast  furnaces  are  always  belching  forth 
their  flames  toward  the  sky.  And  the 
night  is  never  as  dark  for  10  miles 
around.  From  the  rolling  clouds  of 
smoke,  and  flames  and  steam  over  the 
river — the  water  sometimes  registering 
160  degrees,  a  stranger  alighting  from 
the  train  would  certainly  think,  as  a  man 
told  the  Parson,  that  he  did.  the  whole 
town  was  burning  up.  Like  Mark 
Twain  and  all  the  talk  about  the  weather, 
he  could  not  understand  why  no  one  did 
anything  about  it.  This  man,  a  drafts¬ 
man  in  the  office,  said  that  the  greatest 
change  in  the  conduct  of  these  mills  in 
the  last  few  years  was  the  care  that  i3 
now  taken  to  avoid  accidents.  Orders 
are  given  all  the  draftsmen  to  spare 
nothing  that  may  tend  to  guard  the 
safety  of  the  men.  With  all  that  can 
be  done,  things  will  sometimes  go  wrong 
and  for  about  anything  to  go  wrong  in 
such  a  place  means  death  to  somebody. 
If  the  great  buckets  of  molten  iron  get 
spilled,  even  if  it  does  not  hit  anybody, 
the  heat  that  spreads  from  it,  will  kill 
anybody  about,  even  the  man  way  up 
above  operating  the  electric  engine  and 
hoisting  machine.  All  the  iron  ore  comes 
from  Minnesota ;  it  is  so  much  cheaper 
to  get  at  it  there  than  in  Pennsylvania. 
Many  of  the  people  in  the  village  where 
the  Parson  stayed  had  a  wonderful  fine 
public  spirit.  The  lecture  course,  the 
State  circulating  library,  the  literary 
club,  and  the  local  orchestra  all  bore 
ample  witness  to  this.  Practically  all 
the  people  in  the  three  churches  know 
perfectly  well  that  there  should  be  but 
one  church  in  the  place,  but  like  all  such 
places,  no  one  knows  how  to  bring  it 
about.  The  only  difference  in  the  *world 
between  the  two  leading  churches  that 
the  Parson  could  find  was  that  one 
sang  “hymns”  and  the  other  (on  Sun¬ 
day),  “psalms,”  but  set  to  the  same 
tunes ! 
Chicago.  —  As  the  Parson  writes,  he 
is  sitting  in  a  Chicago  station  about  to 
go  to  St.  Louis.  It  has  seemed  some¬ 
what  of  a  trip  to  him,  but  he  was  just 
talking  to  a  little  boy  beside  him  and 
found  that  he  and  two  other  small  chil¬ 
dren  with  their  mother  had  just  come 
from  Bermuda,  via  New  Yoi-k  City,  and 
were  headed  for  Pasadena,  Cal.  The 
Parson’s  trip  assumed  small  proportions 
forthwith.  People  in  Chicago  seem  very 
enthusiastic  about  their  city.  They  say 
it  is  destined  to  beat  New  York  all  hol¬ 
low.  It  has  room  to  grow  and  New  York 
hasn’t.  They  claim  you.  can  live  in  Chi¬ 
cago  for  just  about  half  what  you  can  in 
New  York.  Food  prices  seem  to  be  about 
the  same  in  Chicago  as  in  the  East,  with 
the  exception  of  meat  which  seems  to  be 
decidedly  cheaper.  Nice-looking  hams 
were  marked  14  cents  per  pound  which 
is  about  the  price  of  shoulders  in  New 
England.  Other  cuts  were  much  cheaper. 
Chicago’s  system  of  parks  is  simply  won¬ 
derful.  And  the  city  is  carting  away 
the  debris  of  nearly  250  houses  it  tore 
down  so  as  to  make  a  wider  speedway. 
One  of  their  transportation  dreams  is  the 
day  when  they  shall  have  filled  in  the 
lake  front  a  distance  of  a  mile  out  into 
the  lake  and  eight  miles  along  the  shore, 
ready  for  ocean  going  steamers  to  dock 
at  Chicago. 
Thanksgiving.  —  As  this  letter 
must  get  off,  the  story  of  the  rest  of  the 
trip  will  have  to  go  over  till  next  time. 
Some  years  ago,  down  in  one  of  the 
churches,  we  tried  having  a  community 
Thanksgiving  on  Thanksgiving  Day,  but 
it  interfered  with  the  family  gatherings, 
and  was  given  up.  This  year  we  are 
trying  a  new  plan,  launched  with  much 
enthusiasm.  We  are  going  to  have  our 
church  Thanksgiving  on  the  Sunday,  the 
Sunday  before,  our  Thanksgiving  service 
first,  and  then  our  dinner  together,  the 
church  family  following  as  far  as  possible, 
the  ideal  of  the  house  family.  The  Par¬ 
son  has  pledged  a  goose  and  one  man 
has  followed  with  a  roast  pig !  We  shall 
book  ahead  all  the  poor  little  back- 
country  children  wre  can  find,  and  imagine 
the  picture  as  they  sit  round  that  10- 
wreek-old  roast  pig,  and  all  the  other 
fowls  and  fixin’s. 
Locked  Up.  —  If  we  keep  on  enjoy¬ 
ing  our  religion  so  much  down  there  we 
may  come  out  like  those  Vermonters  the 
Parson  heard  about  the  other  night.  In 
his  dreams  a  man  died  and  duly  went  to 
heaven,  and  the  angel  showred  him  about 
the  place.  When  they  had  been  all 
around,  he  noticed  a  lot  of  people  locked 
up  in  a  great  cage  over  in  the  corner. 
Fie  was  certainly  astonished  to  find  peo¬ 
ple  locked  up  in  heaven,  and  asked  the 
angel.  what  in  the  world  these  people 
had  done.  “Oh,  they  haven’t  done  any¬ 
thing,”  said  he,  “only  if  we  didn’t  keep 
them  locked  up,  they  would  all  go  back 
to  Vermont.” 
Bayberry  Wax 
Can  you  tell  us  the  right  time  for 
gathering  bayberries  for  candle-making 
in  New  England?  We  cooked  some  last 
wreek  but  did  not  succeed  in  getting  anv 
grease.  It  is  not  very  cold  yet.  Would 
that  make  any  difference  writh  them? 
Fligganum,  Conn.  e.  ii.  b. 
The  bayberries  should  be  sufficiently 
ripe  at  this  time,  if  properly  prepared. 
The  berries  should  be  placed  in  a  kettle 
with  an  equal  quantity  of  cold  wrater, 
and  boiled  steadily  for  four  hours,  the 
kettle  being  replenished  with  hot  w'ater 
as  it  boils  down.  After  the  boiling  should 
come  an  hour  of  simmering,  and  then  the 
kettle  should  be  set  back,  where  the  con¬ 
tents  will  keep  hot  for  a  while,  before 
being  set  away  for  the  night.  The  ber¬ 
ries  should  not  be  removed  from  tlie 
kettle  nor  disturbed  in  any  wray,  as  this 
causes  the  wrax  to  sink  to  the  bottom. 
When  it  has  formed  a  firm,  hard  cake  on 
the  top  of  the  water  it  should  be  removed, 
very  slowly  melted,  and  passed  through 
a  wdre  strainer.  Then  let  it  become  cold 
again,  remelt  slowly  as  before,  and  then 
strain  through  cheesecloth.  The  method 
described  above  should  be  carefully  fol¬ 
lowed,  and  there  should  be  no  trouble 
in  securing  wax. 
Old  Lady  :  “I  believe  in  post-mortems. 
It  is  awful  not  to  know  w'hat  you  have 
died  of !” — Simplicissimus. 
