Morris tribune., 1911-09-08

ity is it any wonder that the prices OF
things that we consume to sustain life
are high. We believe that our agri-
ultural schools will aid greatly in
eliminating these failures. When
bows and girls are learning the new
methods of farming, they should be
taught, that they should be the sole
possessors of their own farms large
or small, and lords and mistresses OF
their own households.
Lands are gradually going back in
to the hands of a new class of people
in the East. Dagoes, Italians and
Greeks are hlling the cities and towns
in great numbers. Let me say right
here that they have nearly the entire
control of the retail fruit trade at the
present time. eating houses without
number, clothing stores, and various
other occupations which they follow.
Fathers and mothers of large families,
tho the Children in many instances
are ragged and dirty, yet they are a
bright set and are taught at an early
age to make their own living and if
instructed in our American systems
of schools, will make good citizens.
The American people of the East are
not producers of large families so the
few that remain will eventually
amalgamate, marry into these foreign
families or cease to exist. Theresa ARE
manv Swiss farmers from the cantons
of Switzerland that are buying these
vacant homes. Poor, but honest and
thrifty, brought up under the hard
ships of their own country, they will
in time restore the land to it's former
state. Those old weather beaten
houses, now vacated, have stood for
a century or more, the sunshine and
the rain. the storms that have swept
through their valleys for years, and
the timbers within them heWn by the
hand of man, mortised and pegged
together with wooden pegs are as
sound today as when first erected.
The barns in the meadows now empty
are there that were filled in the old
time days from floor to rafters with
the sweet mown hay. cut with the
old "armstrong'-the scythe-that
is so little known to the present gen.
Grafton. Thousands of acres of these
once productive meadow lands are
now grown up to sages and willows
that hide from view the houses where
your neighbor once dwelt in the sweet
long ago. The fire places. the bake
ovens, the rings and the hooks over
them that held the old flint lock gun
are there. The many window panes
in the old sashes have not been broken.
the hinges. the latches and fasteners
and the wrought nails all made by
j the village blacksmith are still i'm
bedded upon the doors as firmly as
they where when first constructed.
You wonder at all this for you very
we'll know that if western prairie
home was left without a tenant, it
would soon be despolled by the vagrant
or some selfish person to build up his
own. Tho the tall weeds and grasses
surround them, you are glad to enter
the unfastened door, sit in some
nook or corner and carry your thoughts
back to the time when you played
with boys and girls that lived in that
old farm home, slipped the sweet nee
tar from the cider barrel with straw.
gathered chestnuts, walnuts and but
ter nuts from the mountain sides, sat-
isfed your thirst at the old fashioned
we'll, swung in the swing. played duck
on the rock and knuckle down with
Joy that filled you, thrilled you, the
Same as the happy, healthy boys and
girls of today.
These changes are constantly TAX
ing place the world over. 1t is his
tory repeating itself. With all these
changes in the farming districts. ma
ture's handiwork is as beautiful to-
day as when the dusky warrior roam
ed thru the forests, stopped to drink
from the pure crystal streams that
flowed down the mountain sides. The
springs Of water are as cold and as