Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1898-12-14
THROUGH RURAL EMO, .nn
Eisids Crossed by Foot Path,-r.
20 Interfere with Poache. aorns

. =" Interfere with Poacher'. worI
During harvest English ayrio,,..
laborers are at work In the 1ela. ,A a
darkness comes. The last load Is o M
carried by moonlight For both ,.. a
ers and laborers rhe harvest tim.
good time. For the laborers If IS
any amount OF overtime al ova,.,.N
prices, and from June to san,a..
hundreds Of thousands of Enol,a.
borers nearly double their ware. %.
put together the savings which o.,
carry them and their families ~
comfort through the winter. wban :.
working daya are short and waoa.
as high as when fatN la Dor Ia In -
demand
Journeying through rural Enrl.
juse when the crops are being c.s.,4,
one cannot fail to notice two pao,,,..
about English fields that ire n;ss;n-'
American fields One OF thesa !,
extent TO which English fields ara "s
up by public footpaths. The o,b.r -
the studdlng of the fields which has
been cleared Of hay with stiff ,h..S
brushes cut from the hedges ~
footpaths date back 10 centuries 81
farming land was not so yalu,hla ~.
70 closely cultivated as II is to-dar
Farmers do not like these footnath.
Nor do landlords like them either, n.
a field with footpath across II com
mands less rent than one thai IL can,
pletely inclosed. But In England onc.
a footpata always a footpath. Evan
the railways have had to accent mi,
usage. as any one can see by tho ,ro.
quency of foot bridges across the line,
in rural England AS regards thu s+pd
ding of newly mown hay With s.e
thorns, that, too, for American reader,
has an explanation which Is not with.
out interest. 1t Is done only In gam.
countries, and the object of the thorn.
set up with great frequency In the
fields Is to prevent poachers from drar
ging Them ut night with nets. Wbe,.
ever this studding of the fields with
hawthorn stakes occurs it is proof tba,
game preserving Is carried on In IN.
neighborhood, and that the gamekeep.
ers expect trouble from their inyeter.
ate enemies, the poachers.
AS one nears the larger towns Al.
pecially the towns which are great rail
way centers, It Is easy to see how fond
the English town workman of the MA.
lands Il Of bit OF land, and how in
the twilight of the summer evening IA
busies himself with his allotment He
Is usually at work in his allotment By
half-past six. After leaving work hs
allows himself about an hour to get
home, take supper and smoke a pima
and then OF he goes to his garden
patch. Oftentimes his wife and chill
dren go with him, and there they stay
all more or less at work, until darkness
drives them home. The work Is not e.
pecially hard. 1t is done In leisurely
way, varied with little gossip with
the proprietors Of neighboring patches
and where field of fifteen or twenty
acres Is divided into these garden lots
the scene on summer evening Is about
as pleasing as any scene which pre-
Eents itself In journey through the
Nidlands.
1t Is curious thar these garden patch
scenes are more common In rhe Mid.
lands than In the north of England
They are seldom seen on the outskirts
Of the wooden and cotton factory towns
OF Yorkshire and Lancashire They In.
variably occur, however, IN the neigh.
borhood of railway center In the MID.
lands, where great railway company
has esta blished It's railway locomotive
works or It's car factories. | think this
Is due to the fact that railway artisans
and workmen are recruited mostly In
tho rural districts and transplanted, a.
1t were, 10 the towns, while the factory
operatives of Yorkshire and Lanc2.
shire are town-bred men, with no
strong attachment to the land. The
English socialists sometimes condemn
the allotment system. They argue that
If man adds TO his earnings by work.
ing In an allotment III his spare time
his employer will note his added pros
perlty and soon offer him less wages
But whatever there may be in this 50.
clalistic argument, the allotment sys
tenn thrives In the outskirts Of the large
towns In the Midlsnds, and 1t certainly
adds TO the plcturesqueness and charm
of a twilight journey across England
New York Observer.