The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-13
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reports printed in newspapers, predis-
pose him to initiate tbs moth. In every
direction, the youth OF both sexes, On
der the influence OF common schools.
stimulated by the recorded successes of
the few country recruits who have
achieved victory, weary OF the monot-
ony OF country life, sigh for the city,
with its opportunities of profits and
pleasure.
But we who know the city pavements.
and have heard the shuttle OF feet; we
who know the milestones, and have
seen the hordes of men and women who
have fallen between them; we who
count the successful, on the hand, and
fail to estimate the unsuccessful we who
know the bright, broad thoroughfares OF
the well-built sections, and the dark,
narrow streets and sunless alleyways
through the rattletrap quarter OF decay
ing rookeries, as described in this
interesting volume, pause before we
let our feet wander from coun-
| try lanes to city pavementB.
and after we have finished this exciting
sand accurate picture OF city and country
| life, so lifelike and true to nature, we
who trod the city's streets in the latter
days, beneath the MONDAY sun or be-
meath the pickering jet of the street
lamp, recognize the place women have
won in the ranks of labor. As we read
we see reproduced the scenes of city life,
young men and young women pressing
elbows in the race for bread; and this,
too, the young girl at the farm knows as
we'll as the city shopgirl. And she-the
country girl-aoon aspires to be one of
those who labor in the city, where pleas
ure abounds. Women quickly follow
when pleasure, reckoning, leads the
way.
Now, how fares woman in tbs bustling
city when the bulwarks of home are no
longer about her? Read this little vol
ume and find how Jared the young
woman whose history is told in this
book, As she Jared, so fare hundreds.
Perhaps it may cause the reader to atop
aud think OF another side of the cues
ton which has never before presented
itself. When you read this story so
true TO nature you-who see in Obadiah
Fanshaw only the father; in Charity,
only the gentle, trusting wife; in Pru-
dence. only the hayward girl-hsrd,
stubborn, persistent in evil; in Pa
tience's child, only the prosecuted waif in
HARDWOOD Prang, only the steady, plodding
commonplace. kind-hearted fellow; in
Seth Alsop, only the healthy. rustic
moralst in Silas Cook, only the scamp
OF saloon Zig ted streets; and no more
have caught but glimpse of the strings
of the harp. and have failed to hear its
melody. You have failed to hear the
music which the author has breathed up
on these shifting strings of mortal life
music which should touch the heart of
the reader, OF man and woman, to soften
it toward weak human nature; music
h p0n n h SEE OF w fhRas wso
eyea only the faults in their fellow trav-
elers along this cary road of trial; mu-
sic to gladden. the souls OF those who
bruised, iainJ and weary-sink to the
pavement, insensible of the glorious rain
bow of promise set in the skis above
them. You should read this realistic
story OF metropolitan life, story whose
details are acted daily in the large cities
OF our land; yes, even in our own City
OF the Angels, and perhaps such reading
may cast different light before you
which, with its softening rays falling
upon some unfortunate in your path,
will cause you in humanity's name to
stoop and help them up to q better and
nobler life.
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NATURAL
IL shepard of Boston. For sale by the Stoll
d Thayer company.
In this valuable work the author as
serts that the volume is no attempt to
make people content with things as they
are, but to turn the search for improve
ment in promising direction. Unrest
and agitation are vastly better than
stagnation, but to bring the beat results
they muss be wieely practical and in
harmony with Law. The general pur-
pose of this volume, according to the
authors own statement, is the outlining
of political economy which is natural
and practical, rather than artificial and
theoretical. While independent of pro-
fessional methods, it aims to be usefuliy
suggestive to the popular mind. AS
treatise it is not scholastic, statistical or
historic, but rather an earnest search
for inherent laws.
In 1887 the author issued small book
entitled Natural Law in the Business
World, which was we'll received and
passed through several editions. This
present volume is substantially new
work, although a portion of the original
matter has been retained, somewhat
changed in form.
In perusing the new work the reader
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city need to be drawn together, and not
rent more widely apart. Negative con-
ditions exist; but they will not be i'm
proved by stimulating their realism, or
by the assumption that they are inher-
emit. ldealism ia as wholesome in So
GEOLOGY as elsewhere. True sympathy
for the prevailing ills does not express
itself in morbid pessimsm, but in
pointing out the road to improvement
and in inspiring hope and courage. Con-
ventional political economy, as prefee-
sionally formulated, lacks a practical
element which renders it of little utility
in actual experience. Not being fitted |
into the nature and constitution OF man,
it 10 largely a mass of fne-spun intellect
ual abstraction. If the absorption of |
ponderous tones of scholastic political
economy does not add to ones eouip-
ment for the practical business of life.
1t is not easy to discover
its usefulness. The reader, if he
follows the theme closely will find the
''cauHe of labor" has been injured by
providing under its banner MANY fall |
lacies, and even more by the assump.
ton that its interest is naturally an
tagonistic to that of other social ele-
ments. Society ia complex organiser.
or greater unit, and when one member
suffers, all suffer-" The mischieyous
doctrine of necessary diversity is
largely responsible for prevailing fric-
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