The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-20

blood. Their daughter married the Rev. Charles M. Hale rector of an Episcopal Church at Kingston, which is within easy driving distance of Esopus. The judges son died two years ago.
 It is on the farm at Esopus that Judge Parker's personality has full swing Here he writes his most important judicial opinions. Here. too. he works in his fields, sprunes his trees and cares for his thirty registered red poll cattle, his full bloded Poland-China pigs and fine flock of Shropshire sheep
 Rosemont, for so the farm is called. is a beautiful place. all up and down hill, fronting the Hudson and extending on either Side of the rocky road that sprawls in from the village of Esopus Across the great river Is seen one of the new Vanderbilt houses. In the other direc- ton are the lovely wooded mountains leading toward the Catskills
 Judge Parker's Home Life.
 The judges house is a modest but com fortable wooden structure, standing on the stone foundations of a Dutch house of colonial times. It is set on the side of a hill among shade trees and fronts the river. It Is the abode of hospitality and refinement. the typical home of an Amer ican gentlemans The pictures, the books, the furniture, the wide hall and glowing | ing room with its long mahogany table, all show evidences of intelligent tastes that were not developed in one genera tion. Here Judge Parker walks among .5 his bulls and cows in top boots and pea Jacket, the incarnation of strength and virility. He strides through the sorghum l and hay fields, visits the great barn, tends the sick COW or fondles the latest calf. and helps his men to clear up the leaves or stubble His cheeks glow, his eyes shine and he swings his arms like boy drinking in great draughts of the pure air or whistling a merry tune. None of his eight farm hands knows half as much as he about the trees, the l crops, the cattle, sheep, pigs. chickens, | turkeys or ducks. Whether in the peach or apple orchard, in the COW pasture, barn or sty, he is the master of all in l knowledge, as we'll as In energy. He will ply his pitchfork or put his shoulder un- der heavy load with the best of them, and 1t is good man who can keep up with hlm. He Is modest enough, save when he stands among his great red poll cattle. the pride of his heart. Then he | swells with conscious comradeship, for | they are like him-big, strong and genu- inc There is no finer sight in that part | of the country than Judge Parker in the middle of his herd, calling to his great bulls and laughing as they come to him. There is a tall sio and a cold-storage | house. built on the judges plans. In the | storage house are apples, pears, cider | and all manner of good things to eat. | mostly the products of Rosemont. Thrift, orderliness and energetic management l are everywhere in evidence.
 In his home the gentle, lovable traits lAf a,,1r II. selves. To his wife, the inspiration of his mature life, he is always like a boy ish lover. To his venerable mother he is tho dutiful son, smiling at her stern ser | mons on temperance and humility, but proud of her noble character.
 | He takes his little red-headed grandson | by the hands and swings around the yer anda with him like another child. He catches up his baby granddaughter Mary in his arms and dances up and down the wide hall. whistling the while And | when his name is mentioned to her she always purses her rosy lips and tries to whistle.
 He drives his family to his son-in- laws church at Kingston every Sunday and sings heartily, so that strangers in | the congregation are apt to turn their | heads. Nor does he forget to have his domestic servants. who are Roman Cath olics, driven to their own church regu-
 larly.
 The judge is a vestryman in the King | ston church and although man of very moderate means. he is probably the v'ealthiest man in the congregation. He i3 the practical pillar of the church and takes an active interest in its charities
 it's cooking and sewing and dancing schools. its physical culture class and Its masket ball games for boys He is also a contributor to the funds of the loca orphan asylum and Is one of the man. agers of the Kingston city hospital. His neighborly usefulness is to be seen
 on all sides. He is even the freight agent of a steamboat company. so that
 the little private dock on his farm. may
 be used for the convenience of the com
 munity. and there the fastest steamboats
 of the Hudson touch on their way tC
 and from New York.
 Likes Magazines and Novels.
 He is a confirmed magazine reader
 delighting in such periodicals as Harper's
 and the Outlook. He seldom reads poet.
 rv. but is fond of good novels. Mrs
 Parker Is always on the alert for a good
 new story for her hard working husband
 But his natural taste is for Dickens Thackery and Scott. He delights In the vigorous olt-of-door atmosphere of "Tht Scottish Chiefs" Jefferson is his favor. ite political writer. Any book or article | on agriculture of cattle breeding is sure 1 to interest him.
 His daughter, Mrs. Hale, Is an accom-. plished musician and used to sing in g choir at Kingston. The judge took hel to Germany to study music, but Mrs Parkers health failed suddenly and hel daughter insisted on returning to the | United States. Mrs. Hale plays the piano | fo~ her father and he occasionally sings
 Ills musical tastes are very simple and classical compositions are apt to bore him.
 After he has spent a morning working on his judicial opinions-hours of grave | concentration, when no one Is permitted | to interrupt his quiet-and when he is | waiting for lunch. his secretary, Arthur | MacCausland, will sit at the plano while the judge in a sweet tenor voice sings | old-fashioned ballads or hymns, II Feel Just as Young as I Used to Be-" "Only | an rmor B alrtr," Hold the Fort" and so on.
 | It is all very simple and natural in that house. And hospitality is the first law. l Indeed the judge carries hospitality to 1 the extreme. All his neighbors are his | friends. When he sits at the head of the long mahogany dining table with his wife, mother brother, daughter, son-in-law. | and grandchildren, with one or two guests and perhaps a neighbor visitor. he Is the lifa of the scene; gentle. dignfied, help | ing the conversation. but never forcing it-a rare gift in a man of strong men, tality.
 | A nav With IudCa parkar