. Review of reviews and world's work. the attack on President McKmleywithin two hours after Czolgosz fired the fatalshot in Buffalo. They keep in close touch withthe markets. They can confer with doctor, ormerchant, or neighbor without loss of time andlabor. The women and children find farm lifemuch less lonely. Crime has decreased becausecriminals find it almost impossible to escape cap-ture. And the cost, has been trifling. The farm-ers nave a cooperative company ; they cut t!own poles, string their own wire, and conductall the business. This is the record of UnionCounty, and what Union has
. Review of reviews and world's work. the attack on President McKmleywithin two hours after Czolgosz fired the fatalshot in Buffalo. They keep in close touch withthe markets. They can confer with doctor, ormerchant, or neighbor without loss of time andlabor. The women and children find farm lifemuch less lonely. Crime has decreased becausecriminals find it almost impossible to escape cap-ture. And the cost, has been trifling. The farm-ers nave a cooperative company ; they cut t!own poles, string their own wire, and conductall the business. This is the record of UnionCounty, and what Union has done other coun-ties will do. farmers clobs and scientific agriculture. Moreover, we are now reorganizing the Fann-ers Alliance, with its political features elimi-nated, (hie <A these days we shall have thou-sands of such fanners cluhs in all parts of theState—neighborhood organizations of the farm-ers and their families meeting at the school-houses once iir twice each month. These clubs THE REMAKING OF A RURAL COMMONWEALTH. 699. A RURAL SCHOOL LIBRARY IN DURHAM COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. (Three years ago, there were not a score of rural school libraries in the State ; to-day, there are nearly one thousand.) will quicken the social life of the communitiesand will take the lead in all matters looking toneighborhood improvement. They will do muchto promote the very movements of which I havebeen speaking • all will work together for betterschools and better schoolhouses, better roadsand better mail facilities, better farming meth-ods and a more beautiful country life. Yearsago, we had similar organizations in nearly everytownship, but politics wrecked most of them.\Ye are now building anew, and more durablythan before, even if somewhat more slowly. Some other progressive forces of which Ishould like to speak I must pass over with onlya word or two of comment. Our State Boardof Agriculture, our Agricultural ExperimentStation, our A. & M. College, and our agricul-tural papers ar
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