LEAVING THE FARM.
A Young Man’s Reasons For Leav
ing The Farm.
During the past few years there has
been much discussion as to why so
■ any country boys leave the farm.
As a rule, this question has been
discussed by older men who attempt
to analyze general conditions. How
ever, in my reading of eight or nine
farm periodicals 1 have never seen
the question discussed by any of the
boys themselves.
Since, in order to show my position
I shall have to be very personal, do
not take it that 1 am trying to be a
little of a braggart and to herald
anything 1 have ever done or hope
to do. I tell my own story, because
it seems as if it might illustrate the
state of affairs of a great many
other farm boys.
1 am under twenty. I was born on
farm and went to country school until
I could enter the high school in a
nearby city, hoarding at home and go
ing lo town each day on a trolley
■which runs near the farm, 1 always
did chores night and morning, and
spent my vacation working on the
farm. One winter 1 was out of
school working at home. After my
graduation 1 went to college, taking
the regular course, .lust 4fc>w 1 am a
sophomore and am wondering about
what I'm going to do when college
days are a thing of the past.
fust here 1 want to correct a cur
rent idea in the minds of some peo
ple to the effect that country hoys
in college form a class and cult by
tht mselves. Some do. They will
not adapt themselves to the condition
at hand. They go about wearing the
clothes that are yeass behind the
times, with heads in need of a hair
cut, using language that they know
better than to use. They try to par
ade their plainness, and lack of mean
Such fellows are rapidly disappearing
and I'm glad to say that more of that
kind in the modern college hail from
the city than from the country. In
school, it is no crime to be poor, but
it is to parade the fact.
Personally, in high school and in
college, T have never been made to
fe< 1 “out of it’’ because I’m from the
country. It has beey my observation
that the sons of lawyers, doctors,
bankers, merchants and farmers are
on equal terms. At college I do not
have as many conveniences and as
good living as at home, for our
liorm in the country will compare fav
orable with middle-class town homes.
When in high school I began 1o go
.o parties and entertainments with
my ‘own school-fellows. The princi
pal leasqn that I did not associate
socially with the country people was
not fc"( ^use l felt superior to them,
but because there was “nothing do
ing" in the social line. During the
hu t six y< are there have not been
more than fifteen social gatherings of
the young people of the community.
Tims, it may be said that I have been
driven to town for companionship.
? do not. fool ashamed of the farm
or of farming. I like both. During
the school year I am ever looking for
ward to home, a pair of overalls and
the stock. College, contrary to the
popular opinion, has taught me to
look up to many phases of farm life
rather than to despise everything con
nected with it.
Financially, farming is the best
thing for me, because I can have a
lair start in a rich section of the
country. At the best, teaching will
never bring me more than thirteen
hundred to fifteen hundred dollars a
year. Newspaper work has almost
the same limits, with longer hours
than fanning. Professional work
means several more years of school
ing, with many years of living on
nothing unti lone gets established.
Professional salaries may look big,
but a man can’t support a family and*
live on porterhouse for ninety or one
hundred dollars a month. Our family
at home lives better than the families
of many men who are making fifteen
hundred dollars a year or better. Be
sides, ihc head of our household with
a graded school education and no star
at all is "salting” from two thousand
to three thousand dollars a year. So
as far as the almighty dollar goes, 111
have to be a howling success or my
borthor will come out several thous
and dollars to the good while I'm us
ing every cent to live.
You perhaps ask why 1 hesitate a
minute in my choice. You are per
haps saying that I’m too “stuck up"
to get down and plow. I deny it. I
do it every vacation and like it.
Perhaps I'm sentimental. Some say
it's good quality. However, I've been
taught that there is something the
matter with a man who seeks dollars
to the detriment of culture, religion
and all that goes to make life worth
the living. Perhaps a few years’ con
tract with life will drive these very
thoughts of altrism and that sort of
thing from me, but I’ve got these
ideals now. The money side of exist
ence is not everything.
Our neighborhood is like what man
others are and still more are growing
to be. There are a number of fine
old plae^ that were once kept up by
their owners who lived on them. Now,
many of the owners have died, and
the heirs or other new owners either
rent their farms or hie some one to
farrm them.
Despite the fact that this 11011-res
ident ownership of farm property
shows the interest which cppital lias
in the country, I am beginning to re
gard it as a curse to country commu
nities. Generally speaking, the rent
er does not make a good neighbor.
About the only desirable ones are
those who are renting to get a start.
Take our community, for instance.
For a mile or two along the road is a
row of these people. They rarely go
to church, their usual Sunday occupa
lions nre breaking colts and receiving
company. They have no libraries.
They read little. There is hardly a
thing I have in common with them.
Thus, the idea of having to live with
them for an entire lifetime does not
appeal to me. There arc some of the
old families In the neighborhood, but
their children are being trained for
the professions, while their parents
are thinking of moving to town.
I don't think it is over-sentimental
ity that makes me think, in common
with other young men of my ago
about marriage and a home-life of
my own. So I question myself: "Do
I want to take my Ideal of a woman
into such a neighborhood, to associate
with such neighbors?" We may be
sufficient unto ourselves until the
glamour wears off; but there will be
trouble then. Again, I sometimes ask
“Do 1 want my children to grow up in
such an environment?”
Verily I am a dreamer, but talks
with others and my own observations
have led me to believe there is a
good deal of sense to my dreams.
My brothers do not care for more
than one of two of the young men of
their age who live mar us. The only
explanation is that they have nothing
in common.
But recently 1 talked with a col
lege graduate, who with his wife wen
back to a neighborhood -such as ours
and farmed. He made money. Now
he has children. At present he is
thinking of finishing his agricultural
studies so he can get into governmen
tal work.
Perhaps I m mistaKen in my attttua
but I cannot think otherwise. How
ever, if your neighborhood is satisfac
tory, dont ’move to town, for yon
will leave a hired man or renter just
where you ought to be. One person’s
leaving gives another the fever and
so it goes on.—Chas. Smith in Farm
and Fireside.
Simplified Pronunciation.
Johnny, reading aloud in school,
"I change my hues like the shainm
lion (chameleon).”
Smiles.
“Good morning, madam,” began the
hawker in his suavest tones. “I have
here a little article of universal util
ity. It is called the Marvelous Mice
Exterminator, and the price”
“No1 use,” interrupted the woman
firniiv. “We have no marvelous mice
in this house—only the ordinary kind.
Then the door was shut.—S. H. Re
view.
Three years old Nellie was standiu
very close to Mama, who was sewing.
“Oh, Nellie, 1 wish you would not
stand so close; you are almost un
der my nose—you worry me so
much.” Nellie withdrew a little dis
tance and after a short time inquired,
“Mama, am I worrying you under
the nose now?”
Library Notes.
List of new books at the library:
Day bread in Korea—Beard.
Mind and Work—Qulick.
Modern Maehinest—Usher.
Mechanical Drawing—Kenison.
Southern South—Hart.
Thanksgiving—Schauffler.
Travels With a Donkey—Stevesou.
V’ailima Letters, 11 vol.— Stevesou.
Modern Constitutions in Outline -
Alston.
Elements of Mineralogy—Moses.
Story Telling—Lyman.
Kadiutn—Levy.
John Winterborne's Family—Alice
Brown.
Bower and The Glory t’olke Mae
Gowan.
1 lonesty’s Garden—Creswlck.
Dev ourers—Chartres.
Doctor’s Litss—Booth.
Bamrodders—Day.
Cradle of the Poet—Godfrey.
Juvenile.
Short Stories From American His
tory—Blaisdell.
American Pioneers—Wo wry.
(iraded Literature Readers—Judson
A- Bender.
Wide Awake Headers- Murray.
Story Book Friends—-Murray.
Tales of the Ancient Hebrews—If.
I lerbst.
Pied Paper of Hamlin—Bantu.
Little Talks to Little People.
Kip Van Winkle—Kirk.
Luck to The Dudly Grahams—Haiti
Dorothy Dainty’s winter—Brooks.
How Bessie Kept House—Douglas.
Patty's Success—Wells.
What Kitty Did Next—Coolidge.
Panama and The Canal—Hall.
Special attention was given this
month to the Juvenile books. About
twenty for the primary grades are not
included in this list.
Charles Gridley and wife of Hum
boldt were guests of Mrs. Plttock in
this city Friday.
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Since the eight-hour law became ef
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SOBRIETY IN GREAT BRITAIN
United Kingdom More Temperate
Now Than Ever Before, Says
Alliance Secretary.
The amount of beer nnd spirts con
sumed in the United Kingdom during
1909 is very much less than the
amount recorded for all preceding
years. In fact, Great Britain is more
temperate now than she has ever
been, declares Secretary George B.
Wilson of the United Kingdom Tem
perance Alliance. In his report, re
cently issued in the London press, he
estimates that the total expenditure on
all alcoholic liquor consumed in the
three* kingdoms last year amounted to
£165,162,485, ns compared with £161,
060,482 in 1908.
There has therefore been a material
decrease of £5,897.997 during the past
twelvemonth.
On spirits the decrease was £4,800,
000, with a decrease in consumption
of 7,022,775 gallons. On beer the de
crease was £1,186,000 with a decrease
in consumption of 645,396 barrels. On
wines, on the other hand, there line
been an increase of £93,000, with an
(increase in consumption of 103,744 gal
lons.
But. as the secretary’s report points
(out, the amount spent on drink ns a
(comparison, fails to picture the true
Ideereaso in drinking. Owing to the
(increased taxes of 1909, the retail
(price of all liquors advnnced, and
ihence if the prices of 1909 were the
isame as the prices of 1908, the de
crease In the amount spent would be
(double what it is. If there had been
;no increase in prices the actual reduc
tion on the total expenditure would
have been £ 11,147,997.
London press reports state unhesi
tatingly that the British people have
ibeen growing more temperate of late
•years, and elalm that the experience
‘of last year leaves no doubt that tax
jatlon is one great influence In reduc
ing the consumption of liquor. It ia
(further added that "if this reduction
.were to lie progressively maintained
•we would soon have no drink hill to
pay at all.”
The increased taxes applied on llq
;uors by the budget have been a
'tor of the recorded decrease In con
sumption, but It Is probably not the
ionly potent factor, and it is contended
Ithat a marked change In the social
fhablts of the people is a feature since
'the masse* are being given opportuni
ties for developing other tastes. In
ithi* education Is the great agent and
•it is confidently stated that "the turn
of the tide synchronises with the corn
ling of a full generation which has
■been to school. The book is one of
the enemies of the bar. There are
•others. Every park is an alternative,
every tram or cheap train, that takes
■the worker out to the country in ills
•spare time, every slum that disap
pears, and every livable house that
takes its place. The empire of aleo
jhol rests not so much on its own in
herent attractiveness as upon the ab
sence of rival attractions. These
•rivals are growing and before them
(alcohol is slowly perhaps, hut surely
retiring from public favor.”
In n country which has so long
|been burdened by the drink evil the
iprogress of reform is slow, but there
iis progress recorded in Great Britain
ias the above figures show. The drink
[question Is still one of the most Im
portant social problems the nation has
ito face, yet the recent constant de
cline In the consumption Is regarded
as extremely hopeful,
DRINK CAUSE OF INSANITY
■Liquor Responsible for Nearly 50 Per
Cent of Patients Admitted In
English Asylums.
Drink anti hereditary Influence were
-reported as the cause of Insanity In
;42.3 per cent, of the cases admitted
Into RalnhiU asylum, In England, last
iyear, drink being responsible In 22.8
of the cases, and a clear history of
hereditary taint in 19.5. These re
markable statistics are contained In
the annual reports of the county
asylum at Lancaster, Prestwick,
RalnhiU, Wlttingham and Winwick,
Just Issued.
On the subject of the causes and
the preventation of lunacy. Dr. Gig
glesworth, medical superintendent of
RalnhiU, is very outspoken. Refer
ring to the 22.8 per cent, of admissions
for which drink was responsible. Dr.
Wiggles worth says the ligure is suf
ficiently large to indicate clearly that
havoc which drink makes with the
nervous system, and adds: “If the
.evil affected the individual only it
would be bad enough, but unfortu
nately there is reason to believe that
it is often handed on to the offspring,
owing to the direct, poisonous effect
upon the germ of the alcohol circulat
ing in the blood, and that not. a little
of the terrible amount of nervous in
stability and degeneracy which we
see around us has its origin In this
cause.”
Regarding the 19.5 per cent, of ad
missions In which there is a clear
history of hereditary taint. Dr. Wig
glesworth says that no doubt this fig
ure considerably unde rstates the real
Influence of heredity, owing to the
difficulty experienc d in getting reli
able accounts of the families oi the
patients.
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