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"BegorrEL, they'll fly at other's throats when they see me fo ringin' this home." Mrs. O'Neill stroked-the sleeve of the pink gown delicately with her red hands.. /""-It's -certain ye'll not be after wanting it any more? Such a beautiful beautiful dress!" - . Miss Deveraux did not- .wait to hear her washwoman's ; profuse thanks. She had to be ready for a tea at 4. Mrs. O'Neill rolled down her sleeves and brushed back the loose ends of her damp hair. _The day's cleaning was done. Then she wrapped the gown carefully. m tissue paper .and laid it on the top . .of her basket of soiled clothes. "The oldest ought to get it, she thought to herself, "but Nora 11 be sure to scrap, and ye always spoils the youngest.' The eyes of the three 0 Neill daughters bulged when the basket was unpacked. They gazed m rapt admiration at the pale P in ^ shimmering shimmering folds that slipped softly to the floor when the paper was untied. '•'Lace at the neck! cried Mag gie, clasping her hands.. "And spàrkles on the skirt, and * train!" exclaimed Nora, dancing round the room wildly,. Annie sat on the floor and said nothing. All their minds were com ing to the point, and each sister i&w herself arrayed in the gown "Wouldn't I be stunning at the for, unknown to herself, he changed changed the dance order. , ! "Do you know, Miss O'Neill, he said while they were promenading promenading between- dances;- "I: never saw anybody change like you." "How do you mean 1 ?" invited Nora. , "I've met you at three dances this week" (Nora swallowed her breath and tried not. to show it. She comprehended), "and y 01 L?- e different- at eyerj 7 one. _ The first time you were quite on your dignity, I didn't dare say much to you. At Trenton you acted as if you were shy, and tonight you're the most vivacious person I ever saw." Nora smiled gleefully; Thats because ye don't know me. Ye see, I always go through three stages when I meet a person. First I m very proper ; then when I'm acquainted, acquainted, I don't care what- they think." t ,, "I thought your eyes were gray. She looked at him sideways. (They were decidely brown). Then she walked deliberately- into fire. Nora fingered her fan coquettish- "Wxn'T'o .n/O. ^hservinor." Dr. Strong unwarrantably assumes assumes that the sole cause of the current is the industrial revolution. revolution. The chief cause of the excessive excessive depletion of"the whole situation situation is the exploitation of that re what! it had then fallen to. The reversal ôf thé tide is complete < The rate of rural growth is now greater than that of urban growth. During the past seven years the proportion of replenish 1 growth, is almost seven times what] not wither away-, but ' " 1 the earth, so that the city shall no longer requisition the country's volution--which is the cause also of rural to total populatiw has again the city problem. The industrial revolution is a pure boon to all. Its exploitationvcreatys the present situation in the city and creates also the country desert. Professor Gillette justly distinguishes distinguishes between the fundament ail and incidental forces behind the drift to the city; - T-he fundamental force he finds in the industrial revolution revolution the incidental forces in social, cultivai, recreational, and risen from sixty to 1 sixty-one per cent. '• But that the cityward tide has been stemmed is the best part of situation--the | t>he achievement. A forward step in world advance 'has been taken; The Danes have vindicated their capacity by a gift to civilization. The country has been remade. The soil, naturally poor, has become become one of great productivity, the sand-dunes have been checked and reforested. Roads remade, farm- cried Nora. "I'd vocational influences. The current steads and houses rebuilt. Voca- due to the latter, he holds, may be tional education is an accomplished checked by remedial efforts. Yet fact. Agriculture has become scien- even he does not discriminate be- tific and efficient. Co-operation has tween the intrinsic force of the in- become universal. Country People dustrial revoluton and its exploita- are prosperous, contented, cultured The former is as irresistible an d altruistic. The nation has been sons and daughters, but give unto! the country men as the country j gives unto her. Men speak of the high cost of living to-day, and blame the farmer, farmer, but forget the high cost of farming. That excessive cost is due to economic injustice. Many descant descant on the farmer's low plane' of living, and jibe at the farmer ; that] ,Low standard is fostered by lack of economic opportunity. The farmer -is the most frugal of all men. i-- On the "abstinence" theory of the rise of capital, his capital should he above that of all others. His fruitful toil, his thrift and meagre means combined are proof df economic wrong. The English Socialist, Edith Nes- bit, speaks for the farmer as well as the laborer : Children Cry for Fletcher s v .uv Set- The Kina Y OU Have Always Bought, and which has been ,n nsirW over 80 years, has home the signature of : ~ A and. has been made under his per- VTr J 7 soiial supervision since its infancy. fiéoZàJU&Z; Allow no one to deceive you In thiSv All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " arebut Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children--Experience against Experiment» tion. ly. "You're-not observing ' "Which way do you like me, best of all the times ye've seen me?" He looked at her piercingly ; his and a little too as it is beneficent, the latter as un called for as it is evil. remade. Denmark has been uplifted out What is CASTORIA Castoria Is a harnüess substitute for Castor O U, Pare- The coming of the modern indus- | of great military defeat^ out j>f trial world is said to have swept | debt, out of social dmntegrabou •firemen's ball?" walk like this.' She fastened an apron loosely round her waist so that it trailed behind on the floor and swept .grandly round the room, her chm in the'air. The others laughed. "Maggie ought to have it,' asserted asserted Annie. She's the oldest, Nora in her soul agreed, but she couldn't resist sticking it out. "She isn't-invited to the -firemen a ball, and I am." She stuck out her tongue. Maggie Maggie scorned to sjiow a temper. "Impudent thing," she said calmly calmly but she was boiling inside. The ball was a sore point. None of her manv admirers had yet put m a claim. And though it was inconceivable inconceivable that- so popular a girl ss Maggie O'Neill should not be invited, invited, Maggie was beginning to worry. Her little sister had actually actually got ahead of her. _ ' Mrs; O'Neill put her head through the door. . , "Who does it-fit?" she said, with an eye to practical matters Maggie, Maggie, try it on." . It was perfect. The fastenings slipped readily into place. No alteration alteration was necessary. _ , "There, me darlint, Maggie ought to have it. Maybe youTl get another another some time," said Mrs. O Neil , patting-Nora's cheek. But Nora was not satisfied, one must try it on also. , "It fits me too !' she cried. Between Nora and Maggie there existed a natural animosity. Maggie Maggie was dignified and silent ; Nora, impetuous and outspoken. never "got on" together, and Annie Annie must constantly intervene, this time Nora herself bridged the gap. "I'll tell vou what! Maggie can wear it to'her old firemen's ball, because Jim Bryan told me he vas going to ask her, and I won t go ; but Annie can wear it at Trenton and let me wear it at Doylestown . Nora clapped her hands ( excited ; lv at her own brilliancy. Then, she added, magnanimously, _ Maggie Maggie can keep it if she wants. g Thus it was agreed. There was not much chance oi people s noticing, noticing, because of the three sisters each had her own set of friends, and the gown was to be worn m different places. * * * * - * * * * tyé "But," said Annie, after her affair "it- was the queerest thing, Maggie. I was introduced to a man wh o said he met me at the firemen's firemen's ball. I didn't say anything, because I thought maybe he remembered remembered the ^dress--but it must have been you." When Nora's time came, she was jubilant- She talked constantly face was serious near. Oh, tonight! I didn't notice you so much before." Nora drew slightly away from him, but she sighed contentedly. "Come to see me some time, will you." she said.. Her cheeks were extremely pink. "You bet I will. "Where do you live?" ' * * ******** "Nora, you didn't ask him?" exclaimed exclaimed the two sisters when she reached home that night. But he'll find out." , "Who- cares if he does? retorted Nora. "I'm not going to lose a nice acquaintance just on account of an old pink dress !" * a. country free of all occupations From being one of the poorest of cave agriculture Yet even in this countries she has attained the high- .procès^ there exploitation For Lb diffused wéaMv cijny country instance, hand-made harness from in the world. The reflex advance Focd that we make for you, Money we earn, Give us our share of them, Give us our turn. the village shop was both profitable | m city life has béen and in age snop was *ur>- mark has given to the world the demand, and where the sup marK nas giv , , „ nt , ihll _ ply of suitable leather was cut off | most signal and original contribu- by y ot suitaoie leavuei w»= " .. tip W half- ,r wholesale leather houses -at the tion to education of the past halt Ever articulate grows our demand : Give us our share of the wealth of our land. Middlemen, merchants and bankers, bankers, we make Out of our lives this new wealth . that you take. eoric. Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine °thertyNmrcotio substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worm» and alhtys Feverishness. For more tlmn thirty years it has been in constant use lor the relief of Constipation, Flatulency; Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles and iviftrrhœa It regulates the Stomach and Bowels, assimilates the Food, giving heaitby and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea--The Mother s Friend. GENUINE RURAL RECONSTRUCTION. [Address delivered by Rev. Jahn MacDougall, author of "Rural Life in Canada," at the Rural Teachers' Teachers' Conference, "Ontario Agncul tur,al College, Guelph, on August 4, 1914. Reported by Miss Greta M. Van Nest, Bowmanville.] D'Arcy McGee, that true patriot and sagacious statesman, the martyr martyr of Confederation, in one of his great orations, said, "We Canadians Canadians are here to vindicate our capacity by the test of a new political political creation. What we most immediately immediately want in order to do so is men, more men, and still more men, in town and country.' Does his dictum still hold true, or has its ' force changed with changing times? Or if, tenfold more true of the city now than then, would the presence of more and still more men be fatal to the country 7 ? Is there 'an iron law drives men thence, for the coun- try's g-ood, -and the world s good ^ Just what, precisely, is the problem problem of rural reconstruction ? Is it merely to ameliorate the conditions of whatever rural population maybe maybe left us by the- city's growth? Or is it to make a rich contribution to the cause of advancing civilization by- the country's own comprehensive comprehensive growth ? Dr. Josiah Strong, who was one of the pioneers in the study- of the rural problem, now in effect contends contends that there is no rural problem problem but only a city one, namely, "'Shall the city dominate for good or for ill? In his recent volume, "Our World," he writes : "Let us have done with the false and foolish cry, "Back to the Land," which is a futile attempt to evade the problem problem of the city. It is worse than useless, because it distracts attention attention from the real problem, and diverts funds from well-matured and scientific plans which would throw valuable light on the whole subject, and which have been forced to He on the shelf for precious years." Nor is he alone m this view, but represents many Though Dr. Strong disassociates the "Back-to-the-Farm" movement ould not sit still, from the "Country Life' move- She Her U |ieeks a ^rn«per'than" the ment, and commends the latter^ as r of her gown, and she went olt col ■ui She to the dance triumphantly m a car riage--a magnificent luxury for Lie grocer's boy who had invited her. It was the night of her life, felt herself in a plane untouched those around her. The Parisian gown (even if cast off) was elcga [ 1 fl t n > fc superior to any- other. Her r and ready tongue made her eyes very popular. She had many more requests for dances- than she could and she was absolutely Wpv.' Ônë young man in particu- ar P had fallen a victim. By a ruse ie got more dances than any othe , Good Spirits, useful in its way, it is not merely the farmer which he has in mind^m such censure. For he say 7 s : preachers of this gospel of social salvation by 7 land assume that it rural life could be made more attractive attractive to the young people they would stay on the farm." Once more it is assured by the advocates of this theory that by making agriculture agriculture sufficiently scientific and therefore remunerative, the tide from country to city checked, if not reversed w ould be behest of the harness factories. The introduction of machinery on the farm is said to have driven off the abandoned farm folk. T .Let the machinery mortgage for the exces sively-priced machinery was the last straw to the farmer with the poorer soil or fewer acres. It is said an economic law prevents prevents profitable wheat-growing in Britain, New England or Ontario. Let only the exploitation of the virgin fertility of the prairies is behind behind that law. , It is said that scarcity of labor accounted for the drop in the number number of cattle in Ontario a few years ago. Yet the profits of the meat trust and the decrease in cattle were in inverse ratio. When inevitable economic law is pleaded as indifferent to welfare, we not only retort with Simondi, the human economist, against Ri- cardi, the stock-exchange economist, economist, "What then, is wealth everything? everything? Is man nothing? But we claim that every economic law. is beneficent. Their exploitation only is malign. Such laws explain in part the citys growth, but not the country's waste. Depletion is unnatural unnatural on fertile soil. Again, economic law has to do with general wealth, not with individual individual wealth. Exploitation gives individual fortunes at the expense of general wealth. A lesser growth of the city would have been a bene- fit to the city as a community, lfie city will outgrow the country, yet must the country grow, and make its own rich contribution to advancing advancing civilization. It is time that all diatribes against the "Back to the Farm" movement should cease. We need to maintain the highway from the ranks of- agriculture to professional life and public leader ship, but we need to maintain the "open road" from city to country as well. That scores of young men from the cities are now found m many an agricultural .school is a fact, but a slight indication of what the near future will bring. The mobility of society cannot, be attained attained while we have a rigid city a city whose growth is relieved only bv the barbarous method ot blood-letting, whose only .relief from increasing congestion is ttie death of her trampled ones. The problem is not only that so forcibly put by Dr. Strong in his earlier work, "The New Eia, namely. "We must therefore expect the steady deterioration of our rural population . un } ess J ,reV ?J' t Z measures are devised. How to devise devise such measures is the problem of the country." , , Nor is it merely that so /dearly stated by President ^Butterfield m "The Country Church and the Ru al Problem" : "The rural problem is to maintain .upon our land class of people whose status in our society fairly represents our ideals --industrial, political, social and 6t Civilization must «dvahee towards towards the final goal of the Kingdom of God. In such advance the country country must bear its full part Th rural problem is not merely to prevent prevent deterioration, not merely to maintain status, but, to advance civilization. Deterioration .there must be or else advance Advance the city there cannot be of t _ century. ....... Her achievement is a challenge to Canada ! '<■ 7 r Food that we make for you, Money we earn, Give us our i-§hare of them, " Give us our turn. CASTORIA ALWAYS the Signature of Awake,- my country•! The hour is great with change !. Under the gloom which now obscures obscures the land, From ice-blue strait and stern Laurentian range, To where those peaks our western bounds command, A deep voice stirs, vibrating m men's ears, As though their own hearts throbbed that thunder forth ; A sound wherein who hearkens But what is the teacher's relation to this demand This most vital relation, relation, that while economic justice must be shown by the farmer himself, himself, he must be trained in social efficiency by the teacher before he can win for himself justice. He has everything else requisite, for obtaining, obtaining, justice except social efficiency; all the power of numbers and all the vantage of right. So ours it is to bid him, Antoeusr-like, stand firm earth and in Use For Over 30 Years O o Ni NJINY. VORKOITY; i ,u QQ T.a I upon his mother earth and win; W1Se y " the desire of this I to say to him in the splendid words "of one of the real teachers of our The voice of This^No^th^hose heart of fire as 1 day in the. U.S., Charlote Parkins yet knows its desire Not clearly, but dreams and murmurs murmurs in the dream. The hour of dreams is done ! Lo, on the hills the gleam! Gilman : It is significant that Denmark's advance began in her schools. Bishop Grunding founded the rolk High Schools upon the idea of making making a man master of his task. He held that education should not be given in such a way as not to breed contempt for work ; but so as to ennoble ennoble a man's daily tqil and heighten heighten hia ability to perform it well. But it is not merely such efficiency labor that is sought, but patno- national citizenship and the highest world-citizenship as well. "It is the special business of the High School," says one of Denmark's Denmark's ablest Folk school teachers, "•to show how we, through union with Britain and America, are helped helped in our efforts towards that higher human development our race is striving after." . Teachers of Canada ! It is yours to arouse such loyal response to the call of the soil and the service of men in the hearts of the .boy and ' g i r l--with cheeks of tan m your country schools. Our land, our country, Canada itself summons you, in . the great words of Frederick Frederick George Scott : "Shall 1 you complain -who feed the world, Who clothe the world, who house the world, Shall you complain who are the world, Of wh of the world may dp ? As from this hour you use your power The world must follow you ! control 'of weeds and insect pests and plant diseases, by better tillage, tillage, by superior stock, by plant- development, development, by farm management, by business methods, by development development of markets, by rural credit. At this, point the problem becomes becomes two-fold : the securing of industrial industrial efficiency through education education and the securing of business efficiency through co-operation. The 3rd goal is : Adequate and intrinsic satisfaction • of life. A new and better rural life must not only be based on economic justice and built up in 1 industrial efficiency but its satisfaction must be adequate adequate and intrinsic'. The world's life hangs on your right hand, Your strong right hand, your skilled skilled right hand ; You hold the whole world in your hand ; Sèè to it what you do ! Or dark or light, or wrong or right; The world is made by you . Women's feet are growing larger. Prussia has a woman, master watchmaker. watchmaker. British factories employ over 200,- 000 women. , Great Britain, has 70 woman paper- hangers and four bricklayers. Over 5,000 women received instruction instruction in German universities last year. The average wjfges earned by women women throughout Great Britain is $1.75 per week. Woman workers in Birmingham, England, must sew 384 hooks and eyes on a card to uarn a cent.. a To plow and sow, and toil and save, j ' New Yor k s tate has 41,683 woman To eke out strength for bread l > onP y,A r R In its elementary and secon- ■ and things, A livelihood to gain ? No more ? All this is but the drudgery 7 of a -To emphasize this demand is not to occupy a sordid position, but a lofty one. It is not to put .monetary .monetary above moral considerations, but to claim for the farmer a share in that economic justice for all workers which is one of the foremost foremost ethical problems of our day. Soul was not born to be in bondage to the clod, It is its bent to rise with all that laughs and sings, fill the world with Love and Peace, and to restore the Paradise Paradise of God." To old Now, ,in the dawn of a manhood, now, in the passionate passionate youth of time, Wide-thrown portals, infinite visions, visions, splendor of knowledge, dreams from afar, Seas that toss in their limitless glory, thunder of . cataracts, heights sublime, Mock us, and dare us, to do and inherit, to mount up as eagles, to grasp at the star. Then rise as ne'er you rose, before, Nor hoped before, nor dared before, before, i u And show as ne'er was shown be- fore, That power lies with you ! Stand all as one till night be done, Believe, and dare, and do! and Never again can we leave th farms of worth behind. (1) . Community of Ideals Solidarity. . . , The country community has been ropes of sand" where it should have been chains of steel. (2) . Joy and pride of Labor. All gobd work world has seen has depended on this. ~ (3) . Appreciation of country values. values. (4) . Of the joy of service. » 2nd goal--industrial business eih- Voice of the infinite solitude, speak to us, speak to us, voice of the mountain and plain, Give to us dreams, which the lakes are dreaming, lakes with bosoms all white in the dawn ; Give us the thoughts of the deep- browed mountains thoughts that will make us strong to reign ; . . , . Give us the calm which is- pregnant pregnant with action ; calm of the plains when the night is withdrawn. withdrawn. Dr, Strong declares it impossible , *1,0 .i-irlp. ( 'There is abso- m country stand -«till.; Rural recon- can omy be enjoyed by those whoee digestive organs work naturally and regularly. The best corrective and preventive yet discovered for irregular irregular or faulty action of stomach, liver or bowels, is known the world over to be I* bozM, 25 cents to check the tide, lutely no escape," he declares, "from the conclusion that the increasing increasing -disproportion between rural and urban population must Continue, ty i§ useless t-o spend time deploring the inevitable, and Worse thap useless to shut our eyes to facts because we do not nxe them. Certainly there _ is peril when civilization is dominated by a rabble-ruled city, but economic and social laws will have their w»y just the same. They are as iudlf- ferept to any danger which may be Involved ia their operation w trravitation la indifferent to the. peril of stumbling over a precL pice.' advancing Strong de- ruction «til. lor '"the v!ind:.eating rüraî aP wntnbu y tion e to civilization, . Precisely what Dr, dares impossible has been achieved. Denmark has stemmed the tide and reversed it, the eightie» go gtrongly wag the tide surging toward the city in Denmark Denmark that while rural^ population increased two and one-tenth per cenuln the decade, the P™Jinc.al God, then, uplift us; God then, uphold us; Great God, throw wider the bounds of man s thought; Gnaw at our heart-strings the hungér for action ; bums like a desert the thirst in our soul ; Give us the gold of a steadfast endeavor endeavor ; give us the goals which our fathers have sought ; Tho' we start last m the race of the nations, give us the power to be first at the goal. towns grew by , J^ d --r or eleven times as fast, ana ^e^capital by thirty-fiye and a half oent, or seventeen times a* °But jîrbaji srowth^i" penmdrk* ^ it bed then attained, In rural reconstruction the first goal to be Placed before us is: That a satisfactory farm life must be based upon social ; and economic One reason why farmers lack social social efficiency is because they bave never learned team-play in youth. As often as you lead children to play together for the saké of their side, or their team, you help on the cause. , , Another reason why farmers lack social efficiency is because they in youth so little overcome- the instinctive instinctive aversion towards strangers. 1 is when people come together with pleasure that they overcome this aversion, and merge as to become a community. As often as you lead croups from different neighborhoods, neighborhoods, to associate, you help on the day when farmers shall stand .all as one till right be done, believe believe and'.dare and do. The second goal in rural reconstruction reconstruction is. found in the principle that a satisfactory farm life must not only be based on economic justice and opportunity, but must also be built up in industrial and business efficiency. . Farming does not pay as do ot-ner industries. In the U.S. country people are just half of the population population and hold just one quartyr of the nation's wealth. That is, each person engaged m other occupations occupations holds on the average just three times as much wealth as does each person engaged in agriculture. For this state of things there are just two general^ causes^ exploita- ciency. ' , , A satisfaction from life must not only be based on economic justice J ' ■ •*- built and opportunity, but must be up^in industrial business_efficiencj At this paint 2 fold : The securing securing of industrial efficiency tiirough education and of business efficiency through co-operation. William Morris, in Country" : 'Town and teachers iqjts elementary dary schools. Nearly 200,000 women and children are employed in the cotton mills in , the United States. In jam, confectionary and tin bos factories of Great Britain many women women earn only $1.50 a week. Girls can earn as much as $11 a week in New York city making flowers flowers of satin and velvet ribbon. There are over 300,000 women in Great Britain earning less than $3 for a full week's work. The first ' female . aeronaut was Mme.- Tibe, who made an ascension in a balloon at Lyons, France, in 1874. India lias 9,412,642 girls under the age of sixteen who are wives and 302,425 under the age of six who are •married. On the ground that they would be unable to handle disorderly persons, women are refused licenses to operate operate taxicabs in London. Mrs. Cornelius Giddings of Saint Louis has been engaged as directoress of lunches in the Pittsburgh public schools at an annual salary of $2,500. Miss Katherine Kurth of Philadelphia Philadelphia has offered to sell all or part of her beautiful hair to start a fund for a home for lonely girls. Several English women of title are shopkeepers. Lady Decies (mother- in-law of George Gould's daughter) is marketing a patent medicine for influenza influenza and Lady Sackville specializes in artistic lamp shades. the "In Town let me live, in town let me die, For in truth I can t relish country, not I ; If you must have a villa m summer to dwell - O give me the sweet shady side or Pell-Mell. But a house "is much more to my taste than a tree", And for groves--O ! a good grave of chimneys for me. justice and opportunity. Exploita- : ; „ r -rrrr. rr A few fundamen- tion of the farmer, and relative ei ciency of agriculture. DespUe_th= marvellous advance Gerald Massey : . There is no dearth of kindness In this old world of ours, Only, in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers. Outward, we are spurning, ' Trampling one another, _ While we are idly yearning At the name of brother. 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