The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-07-01
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leave the farm in 9. minute EIy farm 4
don't paw no $500 a year. I've got 80 I
acres OF good land and decent BUILD .
lnga. and am out uE debt and ita all i ]
can do 90 send my children 90 school I
and make both ends meet could 60 f.
better than thst on 5000 q year"
Gould your That remains 20 n1 .
proven.
Three dollars a day Of work and ray |
are both certaiul may be better thau q I
poor farm heavily murtgagedi where I
the comforts OF lie must 90 % pay iu-
terest But we VIII take the case of
the farmer out OF debt, and with COM
. Portable buildings. when he wants 70
I go TO town ne bitches up e. team aud
goes; 81 viii probably hire q man TO
take his place il uecessary- But be ls
not at all likely that he puts 4u 500 days
OF solid work on his farm The me-
chauie loses S8 out of his 5000 of income
for every day he stops work OF is sick
AT most times of the year the farmer
. can take one day OK and hardly miss
it. the lub1rer cannot The 1lruler
. is his own mastgrf the workman ls not
. When the workman wants a day ON he
must beg for it. and ia often rc1uscd5
I while perhaps the very nest week he IS
/ discharged entirely, and must spend
/ weary days or weeks perhaps even
months, hunting new Job.
] Some farmers think they work longer
. tain seasons of the yeas no doub- they
. do. The mechanic cannot often live
. close TO his work He must take cars and
4 pay ear fare out of his wages tl get 60
It. Sometimes ne must take both steam
/ and street cars If he works ten hours
! per duy-EFum g TO l2 and 4 20 6-he
. must often leave home at 5=aO iu order
. TO reach the scene of his labor at o.
. This means Ga or "a 5sl5 o'clock break
/ fast the year round, and very few farm
. ers breakfast earlier than that He
. eats o. cold dinner out OF "a lunch pail
. and reaches home to get his supper at
/ 1880. If he Is fortunate enough 20 work
/ but eight hours per day he may hrealz-
/ fast at @ instead of o. If he lives near
+ his work he has a little more time
AS 70 expenses a cottage or q fat
. containing from four 90 six rooms TIA O.
. pleasant location ou a paved street, iu
. any Of our larger cities, VIII rent for
I from SI5 to $50 per month or from $50
. 20 $500 per year If he feels that hc
I cannot afford 5000 year for rent he
] must content himself with small rooms
on dirty streets. up iuuumeru BILE flights
of stairs, or ia the vicinity of vile
. smokes and siclEeuIug smells Many
farmer occupying "a pretty home Hnsyld
be surprised to find that If he visited
] 20 move 60 the city aud rent a house as
. comfortably and pleasantly situuted,
/ he would be obliged TO pay from $50 70
| eNDa rent Aa-A-ass-rlLI AAAaa we AA'#
. speaking of city rents not of country
Z town rents
To the city workman nothing Is free,
I not even the water he drinks. Water
. taxes must be paid just JAS surely
. as coal bills Iu the city You
cannot have "a garden from which %
/ obtain vegetables and small fruits
/ Your potatoes viii cost You from 90
. cents TO sl-25 per bushel- Unless you
/ are renting an expensive house, YOU
/ will have no cellar iu which TO store
I things You will have 20 live from
/ week TO week. or day TO day, and pay
/ grocer.s prices Your berries VIII cost
/ you cents quart, usually more, sell
dom less; your milk usually cents "a
] quart, occasionally o, occasionally Zs III
/ you cat good butter 80 viii cost you
I from % 60 so cents "a pOuudi eggs viii
cost from ~ to so cents q dozen accord
/ ing 90 the season OK the year. aud often
Toe very unsatisfactory; pork win cost
you TO ~ cents pounds ham, 10 20 21i
Z beefstcalr. 10 TO TO- iu the east still
mosei You viii seldom buy chicken OF
turkeys Your church expenses viii be
heavier than I'm tine country. IL you
Join O. society of any kind it viii prove
] expensive, because hail rent must be
paid Your clothes Will wear out just
I as fast as they did i'm the country, aud
/ you viii have q thousand expenses and
thousand huuiliations which you
never dreamed OF while you lived uu a
I farm
Every time you wish 70 go farther
than you can WALK you viii have % pay
car fare. If you are sick you viii have
/ TO hire help to take care OF you. or go
. TO the hospital You cannot depend
I upon your ueiEhborz- Nour dogtor's
7 bills win be heavTs and IL sou die the
land 90 bury you iu will cost o. dollar "a
/ square f1uL-ur more.
The mechanic iu q country town who
I UCtS sI-55 per day rs us well OF better
Off thau his city brother who receives
sA He can usually get "a house with a
I garden attached for from $50 Co 600
sometimes Iess-aud 10y putting his
. leisure time on the garden can do @
I good deal towards the support OF his
b family. de VIII have uD car fare 90 pay
I out of his wages The food he buys
D. I viii probably cost him less than haii
/ what it costs the city IlbuFer. Ills
2 . chiIdreu's achooI expense viii bg
small The farm iaburer has still less
TO ply-as he receives less-lud can
usually procure more land 60 work
thus providing himself with ara uceupa'
. I ti0u for out-1f-vvorIz days
. And again, the number OF city mechau'
I .cs who have work 500 days is suafl, and
thc most Of them don receive as much
. / as e8 per day Those who receive more
. I belong 20 trades where two or tHrel
. . months of work are followed by months
4 I OF enforced idLeuczs. which entails great
o. prlVlti5u- And again, there i8 often q
large per cent OF Iozs to- be taken out OF
3 { O. mechanics wages
But how do the great mass OF city
i iaborzrs who receive hut EI-50 20 e. PEI
3 day, and axe out of work half the time
I I IiVe2
They exist iu attics and aarrets oI
underground bal=ameuts, "a whole fam
ilv- sometimes two or three families
4 occupying but one room The nnlI
playground they have for tneiE chiidreE
o. is the 5treet-and a 1Ithy street lt that
/ for the children are ragged and dirty
i and if they should appear upon a pleas
ant shady street. che police Vould drive
. them u-E
The farmer we have described pos
szasiug So acres of land. sselI-stoci1ed
and with good building, Lives il O. ssFll
OF comfort although he may not handle
i much money which he would dud d
difficult TO obtain i'm O. large citg on les
than esIo q wear Crops win grow 1shll.