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.They are long, calm days o£ the summer
time
.When the world moves on In a. sleepy
rhyme,
And the stars at night have a patient
creep
As they lift themselves through the deep—
They are long, calm days, and the nights
are still,
And the locust-scent blows across the
hill,
There’s a Sunday-sense through the live
long week,
When the red comes Into the apple's
cheek.
When the apple’s cheek takes its first
red tint
Then the brook-breeze breathes with the
breath of mint,
And the grapes grow plump in the sun
and rain
And the clover-tang drifts adown the
lane,
And the sky is blue as the far-off sea
While the clouds are white as soul could
be—
We have found the good that we fain
would seek,
When the red comes into the apple's
cheek.
When the apple's cheek shows its first
blush.
There’s a lazy peace in the noonday's
hush,
And the swirls of dust In the road die
down—
But there is no roar of the noisy town,
And there is no clang of the busy street,
But the good world rests to its low pulse
beat
When the blush creeps on in a wine
stained streak
As the red comes into the apple's cheek.
There's a dappling shade on the orchard
grass
And a shadowed laugh as the breezes
pass;
And the work-world seems to be leagues
away
In a place we knew in some other day,
For the flowers nod as we walk along,
And the crystal air is a breathed-in
song—
And the year’s best time is the wonder
week.
.When the red comes into the apple’s
cheek.
A Fine Distiction.
"Pap,” said Mrs. Meddergrass,
“there was a feller here today that
said he was a pedestrian tourist from
Noo York. I ’cused him o’ bein’ a
tramp, but he claimed he was writin’
magazine articles about the country
roads. Is there any difference be
tween a pedestrian tourist and a
tramp?”
“Near as I can figger,” answered
Mr. Meddergrass, “a pedestrian tour
ist is a man who asts how fat it is
to the next town an’ then hangs
around till you ast him to eat, an’ a
tramp is a man who asts you to feed
him an’ hangs around till you chase
him to the next town.”
As It Sounded.
“And were the school exercises
pleasant this afternoon?” asks the
fond mother to the dimpled child.
“O, yes, mamma,” responds the
little one, “ ’specially Willie Green’s
piece that he recited about the dogs
jnaking love.’’
“The dogs making love?”
“Yes,in. That one about ‘ 'Tis sweet
to hear the watch dogs on a spark
bay deep-mouthed welcome as we
draw near home.’ ”
Correct.
“Gentlemen,” said the professor
who held the chair of confidence in
the Get Rich Quick college, "when
•you see a man from the rural dis
tricts counting a roll of money on
the street and gazing interestedly at
the tall buildings, what is the proper
thing to do?”
“He is,” was the response, which
came in chorus from the class.
Unappetizing.
It was . some time after they had
moved out of Eden.
Eve was repeating her opinion of
•what might have been if Adam had
not developed such an appetite for ap
ples and then blamed everything on
her.
“O,” growled Adam, “rm getting
mighty tired of this eternal apple
sauce!”
Immunity.
“Kitty Flirteigh says she already
*has become engaged to fifteen men.”
“Yes. But I knew her when she
was a child. She was vaccinated twen
ty times and it never took.”
T is difficult for those who are
concerned more with enjoying the
luxuries and pleasures of life than
they are in securing its necessities
I to understand the feelings of those
to whom hunger is not an unusual
experience. And, yet, we are told
that one-tenth of the American peo
ple do not get enough to eat; that
four-fifths of our wage earners do
not earn in excess of SSOO a year.
Living on such an income is like
wise more or less incomprehensible
to those to whom the expenditure
of such a year’s earnings in a brief outing in the
mountains, the northern woods or at the seashore
is not an unusual experience.
The problem of achievement of ambition and of
success tnat confront the business or the profes
sional man is radically different from that prob-
lem of existence that
daily demands a solu
tion from 75,000,000 of
people in the United
States alone. This prob
lem is, of course, most
acute in those centers
of population and indus
try where great wealth
and great poverty exist
side by side in striking
contrast. While poverty
and misfortune are not
unknown in the coun
try districts, they exist
there generally as a re
sult of accident, misfor
tune or disease, and
not from the lack of opportunities or the discrim
ination and injustice apparently incident to our
present industrial system. While the problem of
the poor has always been, and doubtless will al
ways be, with us, that is no reason why we should
accept with complacency conditions which, if
not capable of being completely reformed, are,
at least, capable of considerable correction.
The increase in the cost of living in recent
years has given a new interest to attempted ex
planations of existing conditions, and various the
ories are offered. We are told that the increase
in the amount of gold production, or rather the
decrease in the cost of gold production, has low
ered its value, and, therefore, enlarged our meas
ure of value, with a consequent increase in the
cost of necessities as well as the luxuries of life
without a corresponding increase in wages and
salaries; that combinations and trusts have in
creased the price of their products by arbitrarily
fixing the price of the raw material to the pro
ducer and the price of the finished product to the
consumer; that labor unions have increased the
cost of the necessaries of life by the increase
that they have brought about in wages; and
finally, the explanation is offered that supply has
not kept pace with demand; that consumption has
increased more rapidly than has production.
It is unusual that a general condition is to be
attributed to any one cause. That all of these
influences are more or less responsible for the
present conditions Is probably true. That a per
manent correction of the tendency of the price of.
the necessities of life to increase must be based
upon a proper relation between supply and de
mand, is at once apparent. A demand increas
ing wit of proportion to the available supply is
sufficient in and of Itself to cause an increase in
prices. And any correction of the other conditions
which may have helped to bring about the in
crease in the cost of living must necessarily fail
unless there is maintained a proper relation be
tween consumption and production. The fact that
in 1909 the value of our exports of food-stuffs de
creased, as compared with 1908, eighty-seven mil
lions of dollars, while the value of the food-stuffs
imported into the country increased thirty-seven
millions of dollars, making a charge of one hun
dred and twenty-four millions of dollars upon the
wrong side of our national ledger, shows that the
consumption of that which we produce has been
increasing more than has the production.
To bring about a correction of these conditions
it is apparent at once that there must be an in
crease in production, and the question is how is
this to be accomplished. We must either use to
better advantage the soil that is already in culti
vation, or cultivate that which is now uncultivated.
The truth is, we must do both. Production in
this country, as compared with other countries,
shows that we are not using to the best advan
tage the great resources with which nature has
endowed us. The average production of wheat
in the Netherlands is 34 bushels to the acre; In
England, 32; in Germany, 28; in France, 20, while
In the United States it is only 14. The same dis
parity is found in fields of corn properly cultivated
compared with those not properly cultivated.
In a recent report it was stated that ap
proximately 40 per cent, of the soil that was cul
tivated was used in such away as to decrease,
rather than increase, its productivity. The cor
rection of this condition of inadequate production,
due to lack of scientific methods of cultivation,
must come from the agricultural department of
the United States and the agricultural colleges of
the different states. From these sources the farm
ers must get the scientific information which will
enable them to adopt not only effective methods
of agriculture, but effective methods for conserv
ing the productivity of the soil. The other cor
rection must be accomplished by inducing a
larger portion of our population to engage in the
cultivation of the soil.
We can all agree as to the advisability of the
“Back to the Soil” movement. But how to make
it effective and successful is another and far more
difficult problem. Some time ago George Ade, the
great American humorist, said in a speech before
the representatives of the Associated Press that
everybody thought they could ‘‘write a play, run
a hotel or edit a newspaper.” He might have en
larged his list by adding “become a successful
farmer.” To put seed in the ground and see it
grow seems so easy that almost every one imag
ines himself capable of doing it successfully. But
we know that farming, that is, successful farm
ing, is both a science and a business. One can
make just as complete a failure of farming as he
can of practicing law, running a hotel or edit
ing a newspaper. It would be worse than useless
to encourage the “Back to the Soil” movement if
it is not planned and executed in away that is
likely to be successful. The natural yearning to
“get back to the soil” that comes to most people
causes such a movement to appeal to those who
are well qualified, as well as to those who are
poorly qualified successfully to do their part as
cultivators of the soil. To go back to the soil
is to the man of ordinary means and under ordi
nary circumstances something like pioneering,
and not every man, by any means, is capable of
becoming a successful pioneer. To undertake in
discriminately, unscientifically and without proper
method and organization, to get people back to
the soil will result in more of failures than suc
cesses; in more of injury than of good. But this
work can be accomplished in away that will be
both effective and successful and which will in
crease the proportion of producers as compared
with consumers. All that is necessary for the
accomplishment of this result is that the same fore
sight and organization should be adopted in start
ing the business of farming as is adopted in the
inauguration of any other business enterprise. If
men of means, who also have the disposition to
help their fellow men, would realize that they
could make a good paying investment, as well as
relieve distress and suffering by helping others
to return to thesoil in the right way, the “back to
the soil” movenient would then give promise of
accomplishing all that its enthusiasts have claim
ed for it. Such a movement must, of course, be
under taken on a busines basis; upon a plan which
will promise not only a profitable return on the
investment, but result in giving good homes and
steady employment to many people who need both.
It is easy enough to say to the poor of the large
cities that they should “go back to the
soil;” but for the successful accomplishment of
such a result money, and considerable money, is
required. One cannot expect to make a living on
a few hundred dollars invested in a farm and the
machinery necessary for its cultivation, any more
than one can expect to make a living on the same
amount invested in any other business. So, in
the first place, It requires money or credit to
buy a farm, and money or credit to secure neces
sary implements, machinery, horses, cows, etc., to
successfully conduct it. It will take from five to
one hundred and sixty acres, according to the char
acter of the soil and the methods of Its cultivation,
to support a family. You cannot expect large re
turns from a poor farm, or from a good farm, poor
ly cultivated. You cannot expect to receive a re
turn from a farming investment out of all pro
portion to the value of the investment and the
labor expended thereon. The difficulty in this
proposition begins at once. Many of those whom
we all agree should be brought back to the soil
have neither the money nor the credit necessary
to accomplish it. It is as to the method by which
this difficulty can be overcome and this deficiency
supplied that this article is written.
There have been successfully established in
Missouri and other states in recent years a num
ber of farm home colonies, which seem to offer the
best method for bringing people back to the soil
in away which is likely to make the experiment a
successful one. The general plan of these farm
home colonies is for some individual or associa
tion to divide a tract of land available for farming
and fruit raising into a number of small farms,
which are sold on easy terms or rented to per
sons who desire to go back to the soil, with a cen
tral or Jiome farm conducted in away and with
the appliances necessary not only to encourage
and to instruct, but also to assist those liivng
upon the other farms; the idea being that the cen
tral farm, under the control of an experienced
farmer, will be a source of example, and with the
establishment at some central place of a church,
schoolhouse, blacksmith shop, creamery, silos,
milk separators and other modern conveniences
and necessities of the farm, the chances of sue
ces swill be increased and the chances of failure
resulted a marked benefit to the settlers, as well
as to the people of the surrounding country who
have been taught marty things in the use of t e
soil by these foreign farmers that they had not
known before.
One of the farm colonies that promises the most
successful results is a Swiss colony recently estab
lished in Howell county, Missouri.
Another settlement of similar character has been
established by Col. J. L. Torrey, who was the organ
izer of one of the “Rough Rider Regiments ’ in
the war with Spain, and whose regiment through
, the unfortunate accident of a railroad wreck was
perhaps deprived of the opportunity for actual serv
i ice. Col. Torrey purchased a tract of 10,000
acres upon the southern slope of the Ozarks, which
he is selling to deserving people upon terms which
' practically place it within the reach of all who are
' looking for an opportunity to engage in farm life
who have not the means available to do so. That
Col. Torrey is Interested in developing good
citizens, as well as good farmers, is manifest from
; the fact that he insists that every one of his ten
ants, or those to whom he sells a farm, shall own
an American flag which they shall, on proper occa
sion, display from their Ifomes.
These farm home colonies are all established on
the same general plan. A tract of land is divided
up into different farms with a central farm and
village. The land is sold or rented on such terms
as puts the opportunity to become a farmer within
the reach of any deserving man. The profits or
returns to be realized from such an investment will,
of course, vary according to the size of the farm
i purchased and the character of the soil. Horace
' Greeley said that a man could make a living for
। himself and his family upon five acres of land.
This is true of some land and not true of other
i land. But it is true that with a small acreage
i properly cultivated, with cows, hogs and chickens
i well managed, a good living can be made on a
■ comparatively small investment if the enterprise
is conducted with industry and intelligence. It is,
i however, always dangerous to “count your chickens
i before they are hatched.” The results in farm
i Ing enterprises, as in other enterprises, will usually
I fall short of expectation. Bad luck, accidents and
other misfortunes will, of course, confront the farm
, er. But if he has “the right stuff in him,” the land
, will yield him a liberal return if he will use good
’ judgment, work hard and stick to it. He can then
, be independent of the beef trusts and other trusts;
enjoy luxuries that the city man of means cannot
, secure, and view with complacency an increase in
, the cost of living when he realizes that he is a
, producer as well as a consumer.
When President Roosevelt’s Country Life com
। mission, after an extended investigation of condi
tions of country life throughout the country, made
• its report to the effect that improvement in the
• social life of the farmer was one of our most im
portant problems, many regarded this statement as
, a mere academic or theoretical utterance. But
any one really familiar with the conditions of coun
try life knows full well that the limited social life
of the country is one of the greatest disadvantages
that now exists in connection with the cultivation
> of the soil. To provide a proper social life is an
i essential if the “Back to the Soil” movement is to
i be made generally successful
correspondingly lessened.
The isolation and loneeome
ness incident to individual
effort in getting back to the
soil is thus, of, course, avoid
ed, with a consequent im
provement of conditions of
social life.
Under the auspices of the
Catholic church, and par
ticularly under the direc
tion of Archbishop John J.
Glennon of the St. Louis
diocese, there have been es
tablished in Missouri a num
ber of such farm home set
tlements which have proven
I both interesting and benefi
cial. One was established
some years ago at Knob
view as an Italian colony,
which has enjoyed a most
successful career. There has
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LOCAJj TIME TABLE.
Effective July 2, 1911-
No.lß N 0.20 Stations? N 0.19 NalT
A.M. P.M. Lv. Ar. A.M. P.M.
"7?10 3?25 Macon 1715 4?30
7:22 3:37 Swiftcreek 11:03 4:20
7:30 3:45 Drybranch 10:55 4:12
7:34 3:49 Atlantic 10:51 4:09
7:38 3:53 Pike’s Peak 10:48 4:06
7:45 4:00 Fitzpatrick 10:42 4:00
7:50 4:04 Ripley 10:37 3:53
8:00 4:14 Jeff’sonville 10:27 3:42
8:10 4:23 Gallemore 10:15 3:30
8:20 4:33 Danvilel 10:07 3:22
8:25 4:38 Allentown 10:02 3:17
8:34 4:47 Montrose 9:53 3:08
8:44 4:57 Dudley 9:42 2:58
8:50 5:03 Shewmake 9:36 2:52
8:55 5:09 Moore 9:29 2:45
9:10 5:25 ar lv 9:15 2:30
Dublin
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9:17 5:32 SouMD&SJct 9:08 2:23
9:21 5:36 NorMD&SJct 9:04 2:19
9:31 5:45 Catlin 8:54 2:09
9:40 5.54 Mlntor 8:47 2:01
9:50 6:05 Rockledge 8:36 1:50
9:55 6:10 Orland 8:31 1:45
10:08 6:23 Soporton 8:19 1:33
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10:26 6:41 Kibbee 8:00 1:15
10:40 6:55 Vidalia 7:45 1:00
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