The National tribune., 1896-07-02

! busiiei. while they were from 10 to 20 cents IN
the city, at the cheapest. True, there are some
/ things cheaper but not all.
Yon can live more in one day in the city
than Won can in the country in thousand
years" he says. Well, WE'LL Ii our FREUD is
one year old now There is doubt of his being
olderl. he has, according to that, already lived
3G5 coo wears. Quite an old man. Is his head
] that old?
To be sure, Mr.. Jones is right about muddy
roads. We have them at times. and there are
| 40 pavements or sidewalks to injure ourselves
on. Then. some people live quite distance
from store shop. bnt there are pleasant drives
along shady roads not found in the city.
or the advantages of the country Mr. Jones
would know more were he TO spend some weeks
there. lie would have the pleasure of listen
ing 10 as fne music as he can hear in the city.
He would hear sermons and good see quite
| a number of monuments and fountains, be-
sides the purest spring water TO fill those
fountains.
i have spent a good deal of my life in the
city. and know whereof ] write. Besides, in
the country we can show Mr.. Jones rosy-cheeked
country maidens. capable of giving mankind
more happiness than can be found IN the green
houses and hot-beds of the city. lis kind of
roses are pretty 10 look al. and that is all. We
have flowers as fine as any in the city, that
can be handled, and emit sweetest perfume.
The country is the natural home Of the
"sweet song-bird." and not the city, where its
natural foes preiominate-the small hoy and
his dog. IL friend Jones thinks the wall of
the stunted caged-np birds enchanting. he
would be simply entranced in the country TO
hear the free and happy songs;ers singing their
matn and vesrer hymns.
Nlr. Jones thinks it would be impossible to
number ell the advantages OF city life over tie
country, with its weekly paper. or no paper at
ALL" Whv, we way-hack country people all
take from four to five weekly papers, some
semi-weekly, some thrice a-week and others
daiies. and get them the same day they are
printed, too.
0nr friend must not think because he has
read in dime novel of the inconveniences OF
country life that it will apply to all localities
and that country people are necessarily behind
tie times. And, then, we have one great ad-
vantage that the city people never can enjoy,
except when they seek il outside-God's pure,
fresh air TO breathe. found no place bnt in the
country. air that does not have to be dsinfected
every day or two by the Health Officer to make
it fit TO breathe at all. Come, friend Jones, get
out into the country and see what ii is like.
g. L. Coke, Sugartown, \. I.
LOVER OF COUNTRY LIFE.
after reading J. J. Jones's Advantages of
City Life" | feel as If | must say word two
in behalf of orr country &C. ! was born and
raised IN cities, and never knew what the joys
Of country life until three years ago.
when my parents moved into the country.
do not wish TO contradict any of Brother
Jones's statements. but / wish 10 show that we
country Co.'S have pleasures just as well as
our city Cousins
The beauties Of nature are the charm of the
country; the pleasant, cool and shady wood,
the murmuriug brook, the soft mewing of the
cows The neigbing OF the horses. the car0ling
OF birds
And the flowers-why. the woods are full of
them; even the fields have their share of daises,
with black eyed Susans" Struggling along the
fences aud roadsides.
Does onr esteemed friend imagine that our
country housewives do not cultivate roses and
sweet-rerfumed flowers? Why, surely, there
is be place where you find flowers.
can speak from my own experience regard
ing country pleasures. What is mere exhila-
rating than early morning drive spin on
a bicycle, with the air fresh and sweet, free
from smoke and grifny dirt and duste / will
say, after my Is years of city life and three
years of country life, that 10 experience the
pleasures and beauties of nature you must go to
the country. ] would like 10 hear more opin-
ions this subject
Violet Wilson Slankcr, Mapledale Cottage,
River Styx, o.
IMMIGRATION AGAIN.
Did you think, dear friends, what a
wonderful club The NATIONAL TRIBUNE
Conversation Club is? Nearly. If not quite,
1880 members. and many of them doubly
pledged to Progress and Patriotism through
their membership in the Loyal Home Workers
Association.
What An assemblage TO speak 10 through THE
NATToSALTRIBUSE2 DO we realize how much
OF an honor. privilege, is TINS permitted Us to
address this large number of intelligent pat
riots. both older and younger?
Just refert then. upon the importance of
doing our hest To be kind in spirit, with fra
ternal affection for each other, remembering
the words of Christ" Love Thy neighbor US
thyseif" !
Now. who are our neighbors? Mankind of
every description. Is this not true? VINO will
contradct his statement?
This brings me to the immigration question
again. / have received my TRIBUNE this
morning. and, Us usual, turned to my fayorite
corner and fonnd treat.
i would like TO dwell on each article as ii
presents itself 10 me; but this morning, permit
few words with friends who discourse
upon this important subject.
Mr.. Burnett asks questions that are not per
tinent 10 the subject and describes scenes in
our large cities which have nothing whatever
10 DO with immigration.
Misery, crime. and degradation. unfortn-
nately. exist ia all large cities. probably far
moro la Europe than in the United States
IoHdon, Paris Berlin are all in the district
he maps out 10 draw immigrants from vet
will venture to say that there is double tho
amount of misery and crime in any OF those
three cities than there is in any OF our own
largest cities.
IL MIR. Burnett will read lola or Eugene Sue
Charles Dickens, Charles Reade. and other Old
World writers. not forgetting Dumas and Vic
tor Lingo, he viii find all this misery artisti-
cally arranged, and s;aiisticslly also.
j think Mr.. Burnett is not quite as broad
minded as one would expect from person who
lives in the liberty loving State where much
blood WAS shed for the rights of man.
Mr. BurBett's tart remark about residence
oil n years before voting is n relic of Know
NOthinSisD. which existed before DIR. Burnett
was born, but which permeates some so-called
patriotic associations to day.
Mr.. Morton, you live up in the mountains
aud love liberty. You know that those who
live on the bills love freedom; and loving il
themselves, sympsthize with all who are OPP
pressed.
| Now, let us look st your assertion about
some Of our members" looking back Ito the
1 10th generation before finding foreign born
ancestor" j think ] would be safe n Offering
large gold watch TO every member of the &C.
and J.. h. w. who can go back AS far as you
say for a fereigR-born ancestor.
In the year 1853, according TO the historian
Bancroft. the population of this country WAS
2OO,00O-not as many persons as met on the
battlefield of Gettysburg. Ninety-two years
later. 1850 the population was 9, gs5 600, which
included 562 600 colored people. presumably
slaves. aud about Csc, 600 foreign immigrants.
1 il we had shut out foreigners In l7B0 what