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Do you suffer from
Weakness, Varico-
cele. III y d + o C e | Q.
Structure, Specific
Blood Poison. Skin
Disea ses, or any
chronic or seeming
~ incurable trouble ?
II so. come to me at
once and be thor
oughly cured before
Il ,g too late
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AMERICAN LINE.


,Plymouth--Cherbaurg--SOuthampfon.
New York. June %. July IS. Aug. %, Sept. -
-. Louis, -. June S0 Aug. L. Sept. 1. Sept. %
Philadelphia. July 4, Aug. IL, Sept. y, ')ct. 8
ST. Paul July a. Aug. IS, Sept. is. Oct. 13
Philadelphia -Queenstown-Liverpo0l.
ATLANTIC TRANSPORT LINES.
New York-London Direct.
Minneapolis .JHae 2S, July 21, Atg. is. Sept. 10
Minnetonka. July & Aug 4. Sept. L. Sept. 20
Mesaba July II, Aug. IL. Sept. $, Oct. 8
HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE.
NEW YORK. ROTTERDAM. VIA BOULOGNE
Sai's Wednesdays per Sailing List.
Noorizm June II. am lsynet, july IS. noon s,n
y. Amst-iam July A 4aa Potsdarn. Aug l. noon
RED STAR LINE
\. T., DOVER, ANTWERP. LONDON. PARIS
Finland -. June q, Aug. 4. Sept. /. Sept %
kroonlsnd -Juiy Z. Aug. Is. Sept Is. Oct. 13
Iceland july Ia Aug. IL. Sept. s. Oct. 8
WHITE STAR LINE.
NEW ESSTOwN-LIvERPOOI4.
Cedric June %; July =. Aug. =. Sept 2
Baltic July 4. Aug. l. Aug. -. Sept. 26
MsIestle. July II. Aug. :. Sept. g. Oct. 3
Celtic: ........J July 1s. Aug. 10. Sept I. Oct 5
Oceans; Rnsyox sS1lg Is Agg 15 Sept II
epnblic July II. Aug. 16 Sept Is. Oct. N
rsn Tn MEDITERRANEAN ozo.as y.A
FROM NEW YORK.
Cretic. June p, 10 a. m.. Aug. g. Sept 95
FROM BOSTON
Caaopie. June 30. >, M. Aug H. Oct 6
Roma nc. July !. ii a. Sent. ~ Oct. 81
c. ID. TAYLOR, Pass. Agt Pacific Coast San
francisco Temporary Office. 5s4 Fourteenth s..
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confined my practice, and by skillfully
applied scientific treatment / perrna-
nently cure the worst caSes. My Offices
are equipped with every instrument
and device essential to the most mod
ern methods of practice. II you are
afflicted with eny private disease OIL
weakness / want you to call and see
me- 1t will cost you nothing to ascer-
tain positively whether you can be
cured
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A-Ns,i Oert4llcates. Cncc..s, ..Ssel p.S,
hi.is oi Ladlng anu Negotiable Paper
oI every ues~ llptiun y.s.-ed By n
bond of The Metropolitan surety
Company OF New Aork. Contrast. Ju-
BhSsIE. Manager, koom 10, Ferry
rAiidlng. ~. ~. EARMiCHAEL CO.,
1hc.s ten. Agents. 1pDk hilimorA ~.
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CaptaIn Deeriag Accused.

Captain John Barneson has preferred
charges against Assistant United States
InspectQr Of Hulls Captain Deering.
Deering is accused of annoying ship
owners by insisting upon unreasonab Bile
conditions not required by the inspee-
tion laws
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uor...x k.cs Prove. E,.,,

MARYSvILLE, June l1.-Gus Nichols
died here this morn ag as the result of
a kick In the abdomen by fractious
horse he was Harvesting last FRIDAY,
Internal injuries caused death.
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The NeMport.. Cargo.

- ne steamer Newport, which sailed
on Saturday for Aneon and way ports
had a general merchandise cargo val
ued at sso,76z, to be distributed as folr
lows. For Central America 33e2S5,
Mexico. S13S: Panama S5659 New
York, S3e,997; Germany. sI735. The fol-
lowing We're the principal exports
To Central Ameriea-5617 bbls -four
5000 lbs rice 1854 lbs beans. 81 1000
lbs lard. 2z23 gals wine AZ casks beer
109 cs canned goods, 1926 lbs bran, Is
pkgs groceries and provisions, 25s crte
potatoes, ~ crts onions, 6o42 lbs spices
4z2 cs coal oil, 1884 gals assorted oils
go reels wire. Z rolls leather, % kegs
staples. 1000 lbs cement. 81 pkgs paints
3z59 lbs tallow. 10 coils rope so bdls
shocks. pkgs machinery. % pkgs
tank material co pkgs iron. I3II0 lbs
nreclay, 100 kegs powder. II cs drugs
To Panama-S63 bbls -four, 1852 gals
wine, IS cs canned fruit, 20 cs canned
salmon, 5000 feet lumber. 1000 lbs ce-
nent, - boiler tubes.
70 New York-i5,eO gals wine 3D.
$50 lbs dry hides
To GermanV-33 cs drugs
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A Curgo for Liverpool.

The British ship Balasore was
cleared yesterday for Liverpool with
go, 4o2 cs canned salmon, 151 cs honey,
" cs canned asparagus, 1902 ctls
wheat, 29S,27l lbs tallow. 2e3,494 lbs
zinc skimmings and p pkgs personal
effects, valued at S367,l99. The vessel
also had 25.000 feet Of lumber as dun
mage, valued at 1915
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vessels skip Port Lo. Angeles.

SANTA MONICA, June 11.-By reason
of the strike among sailors and steam
ship employees at San Francisco and
along the coast, passenger steam
ships are making regular stops at Port
Los Angeles. The strike does not in
terfere with the unloading of deep
water vessels at this port.
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raIa..xnx fsir r-...

Good trout hshiiH. Good tube. Low hotel
rates. splendid scenery ever TIE Sierra Rail
way and only Si5 far tlir issipt srip Get yvuI
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g,ubercuIosis and Dronchlal cntnrr,,

Cured Free with DR. Halpruner, Medical
Compound by the II. NJ. ~ Co, 1901 pa
cific ave. Oakia-d. The medicine is sold
By druggists.
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NEWS OF THE OCEAN.
Matters Of Interest to the Shipping
Merchant and the Mariner.

The British ship Segura ton Puget
6ound) is chartered for lumber thence
20 Melbourne at 36s GO
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Summit-Maximu 5s minimum 55 s; cloudy
snow. - inches. inches last year.
Forecast for San Francisco and vicinity
Cloudy unsettled weather Tuesday; possibly
For Sacramento Yalley-CIoudy Tuesday; light
SHOWS in morning. light sOnth wind.
For San Joaquin Ealley-Ciouly Tuesday;
thunderstorms in mountains; fresh south wind
For Los Angeles and vicinity-Fair Tuesday
continued warm; light south wind
Il g McADIE. District Enreca ster
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Consultation TIN T
and 7
Examination

All Letters Strictly Confidential.
Hours: 10 to 12 a. M; to 4 and te
8 o. m.
Those who have no money will be
treated untIi such times as they can
make a payment on their case. II you
are sick and have no money come any
how.
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COMES WITH BIG SHIPMENT
OF CEMENT FROM EUROPE
WEATHER BUREAU REPORT.

United States Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau. June II. 1906.
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sum and Tide.
EXCURSION To 1kinh.

Leave San Francisco at S a. m on
Sunday, June II, and Gkiah at 5 o. m.
tsckcts, s. tor the round trip, on sale
at Ttpuron ferry.
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Sydney, Auckland, Samoa, Honolulu
Hambarg-fmenican.

Piymouts1--Chcrbourg--fiemburg
:Saiserin A. v..June n Graf wa,de-sae Inn. an
Pretoria. June y sAmerika .. Jnsv <
.Oecana June q penasyivania July "a
sDeutscnland. dune IS ?kaiserin A. y..Jur 10
GrtI Room Gymnasium. Elevator and A
Ia Carte kesI1urant. Gyma 4siun ere lCaiIing
at Dover for London and .saris
ofhees-io5o Bsoadiway, Oakland. Cal
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For Ensenada, La Paz. Mazatlan,
Guaymas and Other Mexican Ports,
Calling at San Pedro and East San
Pedro.
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COAST LINE

sFtThirl and Townsend Strcetsf
s.loa san Jose and Way STATIONS S-5ap
T.3ea San N2teo. Belmont, san Jose.
Morgaphil1. Gilroy. PajaTo.
jacksonville. CapitOla, santa
Cruz. Del Monte, Monterey.
Pacific Grove ---....--.----.----.-- 4.3op
SOFA South san Francisco. san Mateo.
Palo Alto. San lose .---- T.4op
10.3oa Burlingame. san Mateo, Red
wood. Menlo Park. Palo Alto.
San Jose -----.---....--.. .--------------- SOP
ii.3oa San Jose and Way stations SOP
z.I5p Palo Alto. san lose and Way sta
tons .------------------ 6.5oa
3eop Del Monte ExpFcSS-Santa Clara.
san Jose. WatsOnville. Santa
Cruz Del Monte Monterey.
Pacific Grove --..------- 1Z-l5D
500 South san Francisco. san Jose,
Gilroy. HolliSteF. Tres PinOs--- -1Sa
a30p san Jose and Way stations z 55a
fS.ee santa Clara. san Jose. Los Gatos. fs -ooa
S5-30p san lose and Way Stations s.5oa
ts.lsp Burlin~ame, san NHtco. hercs-
ford Belmont. san Carlos. Rcd
wood Fair Oaks. MenlO Park,
Palo Alto. ..------ .-...--------------- fo.&ea
sssp San lose and Way stations s.ys@
S.oop Ocean View. Cclma- PalO Alto ic-lSa
OAKLAND hIARBOR FERRY
Foot of Market street,
zoo. 500. geo. 1000. 100 a. N.
1900 leo 2eO. 800. 400. j.c0. GOO. 500 D. "a.
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Right Reserved to Change This
Schedule.
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for Morning. P for AftcritoOn
tsuntlay excepted tSluday only.
lDaily. and stops AT all stations on sunday
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Michael. via Seattle and Tacoma; Bar
neson. Hibbard & Co.
Br ship Balasore. Lloyd. Liverpool;
Balfour, Guthrie & Co.
SAILED.
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Parking for the Town.

The town parks, or the town or
village square are the lungs Of its
citizens.
If the town is growing, it is none too
soon to start movement to provide
for the securing of ample town park
ing. The land is increasing; when the
town has doubled and has become a
small city, it will not be so easy to
secure sites, readily accessible to the
people, without paying an exorbitant
price. Secure first the land; 1t is not
important that large amount of
money should be at once expended
upon it's Identification, possibly it
needs but little, since nature may have
made it more beautiful than can man.
It is not necessary that it should be
transformed into carpet beds of
flowers and trinity kept lawns. If it
affords sunlight and green relie- of
grass and trees for the eye, it becomes
a civilizer and an equalizer, for the
poor as well as the wealthy, a resting
place where man may forget, for
the time, some OF his struggles and
his anxieties in contemplation of
what God has made.
The park should be kept, In fact, as
natural as is consistent with it's use as
such. 1t is never too early, however,
to secure its site, with view to the
building up OF the community, when
land values will necessarily increase.
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Phoenix, Arizona, a farm Of one hun
dred and sixty acres has been turned
into a homecroft village. The land Is
especially adapted to raising vege-
tables and is under one Of the best
water-rights in the region. Five-acre
tracts are here given to each worker.
The new government reservoir on
Salt River and driven wells on the
property, insure permanent supply
of water for irrigation and therefore
unfailing crops.
These undertakings, while practical
and constructive In every sense, are
intended rather as models to show
what can be done in any community
in the country. Japan, with sixty
seven per cent. of her total population
working In part or entirely on the land,
has become land Of gardens where
hopeless poverty Is almost unknown
and where tuberculosis is a negligible
quantity. America can take care of
its hopeless thousands in the same
way, first by putting hope into them
and then by putting them where they
may attain it. 1t is to the promoters
of our great industries that we must
look for help in great part, but public
sentiment and sympathy will move the
promoters and reach the problem.
The Homecrofters Gid promises
start which ought to weld together the
country and the city into one inde-
structible whole and, supplemented by
proper charity administration and sane
vagrancy laws, remove entirely the
possibility even Of submerged
tenth"
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Distribution Of Immigrants the
Solution.

II there were only some practicable
way Of distributing immigration more
equally among all the ports Of the
country the congestion and segra-
CATION phases Of this problem would be
nearer solution. 1t can be accom-
plished in but small degree, since 1t
will only be done If answering an
economic demand, as in the case Of
the Galveston Bremen service. Wise
and well organized effort to induce
immigrants to pass through the large
ports by finding and insuring them
employment in the interior and by in
forming them of opportunities else
where, will do much to improve con-
ditions. The self-interest of states,
many OF which maintain immigration
agencies, might also be brought more
generally into play to attract the in
dustrious and ambitious new comers
to their farms and smaller towns.
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fresh air, it was equally to the advant-
age of their moral life that they should
be brought into contact with nature.
There was an advantage, too, in bring
ing the workingman on to the land,
for instead of his losing money in the
amusements usually sought in the
towns, he saved it in his garden prod
uce-a great consideration where the
poorer class of workman was con-
cerned." And again, ''The cultivation
of the soil is certainly the best anti
dete to sedentary occupation Of those
working in large towns. A primitive
instinct is INDUCED, the full value of
which seems hardly yet to have been
realized. Many believe, indeed, that
with its encouragement the abuse of
the social club and the public-house
will be materially lessened, and one of
the greatest social evils of the time
disappear. CThe experience of Bourn-
vile certainly gives support to this
conclusion, for nearly every house
holder there spends his leisure in gard
ening, and there is not a single licensed
house in the village.)"
SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR
A HOUSE,
The houses Of Bournville were built
with special reference to cheapness,
artistic development, sanitation and
convenience. At cost of from 500
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have not yet fully realized the
change-they still are doubtful and
suspicious. About four years ago, be-
fore the tide of immigration and capi-
tai set in toward the Southwest, a
stranger from the North drifted into
this particular city. He was just
looking around" with no special pur-
pose in view. A eurbstone real estate
broker had on his list tract of bottom
land, timbered, but worthless on ac-
count of the annual floods. This land
he had hawked about the street for
75c per acre, but found no takers
among the home spectators. The
tract was mo good" 1t was offered
to this stranger for $1.00 per acre.
Would he look at it? Yes. He looked
it over, examined every acre of it.
came back to town and handed over
$4,000 for the worthless tract. Great
was the joy of the natives who were
lined up at the various bars, to drink
to the health of the sucker" But
the sucker returned in about month
with another capitalist from the North
and sold this worthless tract for $780,
600. But this was not all. Within
ninety days the second sucker brought
q third and sold him the timber alone
for $4,000. And then the local
bankers and conservative capitalists
kicked themselves for not thinking of
it.
For years people have been leaving
Arkansas and Missouri-going west
looking for opportunities. To-day
strangers are taking their places and
finding money on every bush. The
newcomers are simply developing the
resources which the natives failed to
recognize.
This principle holds true Of a ma
jority Of individuals in every COM
munity. We are too near to see the
opportunities at our feet. We pass
them over and leave them for some
one to pick up.
The twentieth century for the United
States at least will be a time Of con-
centration rather than expansion. Al
century of rural development and
home building. As has been indicated
the people must get back to the land,
and Industrial institutions to reach
their best development must give the
worker a chance for a home.
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solutions of many of the problems OF
modern city life ever attempted in this
country. 1t is in line with the best
enterprises for solving the questions OF
housing, sanitation, education and
morals. AS such it should command
the attention and cooperation of all
constructive social workers.
The Homecrofters Gid offers garden
work and craftsmanship as a substi-
tute for the street corner, the cheap
show and the saloon. And it offers in
addition health, contentment and a
substantial increase in income to the
workers. The increase takes practi-
cal form in the shape of health from
work in the air, from fresh vegetables
and fruits, from clean environment
and from absence of bad habits; from
money saved from useless pastimes;
from absence of doctors bills and from
direct return in the way Of COM
modities for use In the home or for
sale.
The founder and main supporter Of
the movement is Mr.. George H. Max
we'll, editor of Maxwell's Talisman and
founder of the National Irrigation
Movement. AS student Of social con-
ditions, Mr.. Maxwell has concluded
that college settlements and similar
movements merely scratch the upper
surface of the problem and fail utterly
to get under it and crowd it out with
better condition. His creed is,
Every child in garden, every mother
in h0mecrOft, and individual, in
dustrial independence for every worker
in a home Of his own on the land"
MEANING OF HOMECRoFT.
The word "Homecroft'' has been
coined by Mr.. Maxwell to fit the thing
he has in mind. The Scotch word
Croft means very small piece Of
land farmed intensively by its occu-
pant but not large enough to yield him
living and constitute him a farmer.
The Homecrofter, therefore, under the
conditions being developed, is labor
ing man, clerk, skilled artisan or what
not, who supplements his regular in
come by, and spends his spare time in,
work on the land His children may
likewise be employed out Of school
hours and at other times when they
would otherwise be on the street or
forced into some one of the street
trades to help maintain the home. For
the children the advantages are OBJ
vious. Healthy exercise in the open
air for purpose, fresh vegetables and
other products, and occupation, are
substituted for spasmodic exercise
under bad conditions, stale vegetables
or none at all, and the gang.
1t can be demonstrated that the
ordinary factory worker on from one
half acre to an acre of land can earn
actually more in the odd time given
to his garden than he does from his
regular work, taking it hour for hour.
The other advantages are evident.
THE GILDHALL AND SHOPS.
AS foundation for the Gid the
Wilson estate at 143 Main st. Water
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tenths per thousand in Bournville.
The garden features in Bournville are
planned with much care, provision in
most cases being made for some lawn,
flowers, vegetables and fruits.
To return to the Homecrofters Gid,
there is one distinctive advantage in
MI. MaxweIls plan, in that he aims
to attach to each home emo g. land to
make 1t a feature and not merely an
incident in the life of the worker, and
he has added the crafts work for wo-
men and for men in the winter. He
already has under way plans for an
experimental group of four houses
under one roof, to be placed at the
centre of square so as to secure the
greatest economy Of space and place
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Birmingham to a point four miles from
the city and erected twenty-four
houses for the workmen. Mr.. George
Cadbury, from long observation and
experience, concluded that the only.
practical way to solve the problem was
to take the factory worker out on the
land where he might pursue the ma
tural and healthy recreation of garden
ing. Says Mr.. w. Alexander Harvey
in his book on Bournville, 1T was i'm
possible for working men to be healthy
and have healthy children, when after
being confined all day in factories they
spent their evenings In an institute,
club room or public-house. If it were
necessary for their health, as it un-
doubtedly was, that they should get
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dustry, necessity for the -ttainment
of the best results.
s. a growth Of cooperation, which
will give to the homecroft settle
ment all the advantages of the ci i
In schools, libraries, hospitals, enter
tainment halls, water supply, electric
lights, improved roads, ETC.; while
the cultivation OF. each separate acre
or "croftn will be facilitated by the
cooperative ownership Of the numer-
ous expensive pieces Of farm ma
chinery now to be found on the best
large farms, but which could not bel
afforded by the individual crofter.
6. The fostering Of sturdy, inde-
pendent individuaIisna, to hich|
nothing contributes SO muc as the
ownership Of a home and conscious
ness that one can stmake q Iiving,'|
Of any boss.
Concurrently with such bettermentsI
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The KaIue Of a Good Garden.

Many people fail to realize the
great value of a thrifty, well-kept
garden. Even an inferior one is much
better than none. Vegetables are in
dispensable to family, SO far as
health is concerned. to say nothing Of
the money saved by not having to buy
30 much -four and SO many groceries.
1t would seem that every man
should manage to obtain a piece of
ground and see that it becomes well
fertilized and enriched and then put
under a thorough state Of cultivation
before trying to plant the seeds. II
only costs little to buy enough seeds
for quite good-sized garden.
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them to snA ractUry or shop.
8. Reliable occupation api sup
|port for the wage-ear sr himself, In
lease Of temporary loss Of his regu-
lar employment. An acre Of ground,
intensively cultivated and irrigated,
will support family.
4. Opportunity to set up, in the
homecroft, little handicrafts for the
products Of which there is constant
demand; such as special lines Of
weaving, knitting, rpgmaiing, cab
inetmaking, basket weaving, turning
in wood or bone, instrument making,
manufacturers Of leather, gloves,
ETC., etc. The distribution Of power
from electric wires, or the use Of lit
tie gasoline engines, In village Of
homecrofters, may demonstrate that
the concentration Of thousands Of
workers IN great factories Is not,
after All, In great many lines o4 in-
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The LEGAL Handicap.

The Prophet is without honor in his
own country. So the village and small
town are without confidence in their
own resources. We get SO familiar
with the things about us that we re
apt to underrate their value. 1t is
often necessary for total stranger to
come along and show us the neglected
opportunities that have been under our
nose unseen for years.
The writer while pursuing some In
dustrial Investigations had occasion to
visit thrifty little city in the South
west. 1t is an old town that has liter
ally been forced to the front by the
pressure of development and northern
energy. The place has five railroads,
population of 10000 and a number of
modern buildings. Still the natives
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lin the condition Of the wage-earner,
the general carrying out Of the home
croft idea would relieve the con-
gestion Of population IN cities, and
greatly assist in their development
along those lines which are nuch
better than mere bigness. a hum
dred thousand or million people
living on small tracts Of land, vi in
an hours ride Of city would make
far more business for the city, Of
every desirable kind, than the same
closely packed in tenements.
The sshomecroft'' experiment not
to be limited to the settlement fost-
cred by Mr.. Maxwell near Boston.
The idea combines with its sugges-
tions Of social betterments the prob
ability Of very satisfactory returns
to the owners Of vacant lands, near
cities, who may be disposed to ex-
pertinent with it
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THE HonEcRoFT VS.. THE TENEMENT.

From st. Paul Prcss
BY way Of affording practical OBJ
iect lesson in the "Homecroftv idea,
George a. Maxwell has acquired fifty
acres Of ground at Watertown, Mass.
-less ths n thirty minutes hy rail-
road or forty-dve minutes by trolley
from the center Of Boston--whlch
viii be broken up into small .scrofts''
for city workers. There, it is to be
presumed, will be illustrated, by de
grees, all the different phases Of bet
ment which characterize the
homecroft as compared with the
tenement-house idea, In ITS applica-
ton to the life Of the average Ameri-
can wage-earner; especially he whose
weekly stipend comes from work In
city shop or store or factory. Among