The Press., 1910-01-12

on the sick list. is again able to b $ out
 Miss Mary Lord, former resident now of Lewiston. Me, is i'll witt
 neuralgia.
 Hostesses at the Universalist suppe tonight, Mrs Mary Soule. Mrs
 Nellie Squires.
 Rev. Charles H. Emmons of Port land. Me will occupy the pulpit a
 the Universalist church Sunday. No better ice was ever harvested than the 13-inoh ice cut on Corpi
 pond this week. Among those who
 have filled their houses are B O
 Pinney, H. M Jenkins. F. A. Las bury, Austin Witt. J F. Brown, F.
 l.. Upham and Wm Black
 The officers of Stafford grange were
 installed Tuesday, Jan. 4. by J. M.
 Larned, assisted by Mrs. F. A Las.
 bury. Owing to the extreme cold
 weather, only a few invited guests
 joined the members of the grange iu
 the social and refreshments that fol
 lowed the ceremony, but all reported
 a pleasant time. The grange voted
 to confer degrees on candidates Feb.
 15 and March l At the next meet
 ing the topio will be ''The Grange, ''
 and reports will be given of recent
 meetings of national and state
 granges. The work of the Pomona or county grange will be explained and a short paper on ''Origin of the grange'' will be read. Special music
 is expected. .<-.>
 Rev. H. A. Hersey. recently pastor of the Universalist church, in "On-
 ward." of which he is editor, of Dec.
 2s, has the following editorial, en-
 titled ''Good by to Stafford:' :'' The day that this paper is dated will be our last in Stafford. We have spent more than three happy years in the little town. years in which some of the best and some of the most search . ing experiences have been passed through. The two little assistant Fedftors'' have been born here and christened in the old church. The multitude of experiences of a first pastorate have been good and profit able. As in private life they have been both pleasant and unpleasant, but all of them "good" because resulting in good. City born and city bred, 1t was a relief and de. lightful experience to get into the country, into it so far that the trolleys refuse to come within speaking dis tance, and the steam railroad rigidly observes the Sabbath, so far as passengers are concerned. We have learned to walk. Not that we did not acquire the art of equilibrium and ambulatory locomotion in earlier years, but learned to walk miles in- stead of a block or two. Unable when we came out from bondage to the Boston trolley cars, with their curse of convenience and frequency ard their "too, too solid" atmosphere, to walk more than 8 mile without pedal exhaustion, we have become able and eager to walk from ten to twenty miles and feel all the better for doing it We have learned to pity the city trolley slaves and the country horse slaves, who never know the joy of swinging along the road" with 8 song in the heart, if not on the lips, a walker with nature instead of a rider through it. Alasl Those nature books, those promised nature studies, they are for city folk. not for country parsons. Too busy to study trees and birds and flowers, we found even the ways of the garden weeds, the witch grass, the mallow, the "portulaca oleracea," to give "puss- ley" a dignifed me,-that these had solved the secret of deriving nu- tuition from unoultivated and dry soil; while under our earnest efforts to put body and spirit into the oom- mon vegetables, the weeds grew like the magioian's rosebush. A terrible tragedy Gin the garden occurred when corrupt and villainous pigweed ohoked an unoffending and precious raspberry bush to death. The joy of gardening? Yes it is joy-if you have time to work in it every day and keep the upper hand. We have en- joyed fruits and vegetables of our own raising, especially since one can scarce purchase them in town and must needs go without unless self. supplied. The city is the place, as MT. Dooley says, where all the good things go to. Yet we are not antioi- pating with joy that curious compound in little glass jars, universal in the oity under the brand of ''cream," instead of the practically solid pure product of the COW, found only in the country; and not too often there. in these days of separators. Balance and oounterbalance, however, and both city and country are good places to live in. It is not true that "God made the country and man made the oity.'' The city is part of Gods plan. Nowhere does he call more insistently for the exercise of gud- Illness and the practice of Christian ity. Nowhere does the great lesson that we are, our hrother's keeper come home with much force. If the coun. try is g good place in which to wor. ship God. the city is a larger one in which to serve Him. The country calls the people to church and the city oalIs tbe church to the people. He who has the right heart, the right desire, can be busy and happy in either place. No place so small that there is not great work to do, and none so great that the smallest work for God is insignifcant. These ara a0Y1a nf Eha many &houOhka that