Arizona republican., 1890-05-19

comes down on you as if you d got GS .ol G4 @ week." she said. Out of their 12s a week--full wages--they paid, at the rate of Is I'd for rent and 8d week for schooling, 50 that for food and clothing and light and fire the six of them had something under los for the seven days. It was indeed pitiful to think of this un- fortunate mana kindly, affectionate father he appeared by all account, doing his best to satisfy the appetites of his children and trudging off with scanty clothing and empty stomach for nearly twelve hours labor in all weathers, de- pressed with certain knowledge that be- tween his family and the Work House stood nothing but his own frail life and bodily strength.
 EXILE THE ONLY ESCAPE.
 These village homes are often the mast insanitary little places, but they look wonderfully peaceful and pretty with their little four-court gardens, their windows full of flowers, their red brick floors, their well-polished furni- ture, their old-fashioned ornaments, their sunniness and airiness and general aspect of peace and simplicity and leisure. It really seems to be almost an ideal life that these people might lead, and to the denizen of the great city, with its toll and strife, its ceaseless drive and rush and din and turmoil, it seems, on the face of things strange that these picturesque villages are not gayer of heart and brighter in spirit than they appear to be. Why should they be so sad and dull and anxious? Alas alas qI in hut ic streaming in by the open door and flooding the thicket of geraniums in the front window-sit down and draw out the peoples confidence little, and you soon understand it all, their struggles and privations, and thir fears and anxieties, that blot out the sunshine, and make the very breeze whisper of coming trouble.
 But it will be said that these things used to be even worse than they are now. We'll, yes, possibly they were. But there is another fact that strikes you with great force, even here and there as you move about Lincolnshire vil- lage. There are signs that the influence of cheap press and of general educa- tion are being felt everywhere. All the great storms of our social and industrial life in cities send waves of influence sweeping through these towns and ham, lets in way they have never done be- fore. All the brighter and more intelli- gent of their populations have some knowledge of what is going on in the world. A divine discontent" is one of the outcomes of the forces of the times; and while the larger of the farmers are giving up farming, because, with the landowners on their backs, they cannot make farming pay, young laboring men of spirit are dropping of the land to try their luck in towns or in the colonies. must not be understood to be speaking of the whole of Lincoln shire, but certainly in some of the dis tricts into which have been one can not but stop now and again to ask himself: What is going to be the end of it all?
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