NATION IN DANGER Farm Abandonment Has Created Most Serious Situation. Food Supply Threatened Through the Drift of the Population to the Cities—Now Is Great Opportu. nity to Take Up Land, The question, “low Is the country to be fed if the populntion continues to drift to the cities?’ Is one that should create an agitation that will bring about a reply that will mean a solution. The census, recently com- pleted, reveals a situation truly alarm- ing, one that has never been known in the United States before. The ur- ban population Is now greater than that of the rural districts by about 4,000,000, Cities and towns, each with more than 2.500 inhabitants, contain 64,318,032 persons, or 51.4 per cent of the total population, while the farms and smaller towns together claim only the total, As is pointed out hy an influential Chicago daily, “the drift to the cities industrial life.” Farming Is and must remain basic industry of the world, and cer- nation with a ours, markets try of na area like gain the with of the world certain subsistence for our people, and fluctuating erops are reflected in price changes that upset the economic life of the country. Yet we are measurable distance of that condition, if the present or recent drift the eities continues, Most writers on this topic take fit merely to make more that times farms to cities money. of a motive at all very or diately after tries paid wi to rival Doubtless and nertod WAS n strong one in the Imme. the war, when city Indus. ges totally Impossible for farmers It is hoped that this ifting has ned of its fore reached there still continnance, the effect cannot he told. Ti for war purposes it the © ore nnufactnres with emploved In nL consed, nnd mimber those factories ig dimint : the ing by thousands refore hoped that there heard the slogan, “For. ard to If prices to which form land 1 are pri 8 eo ro hihitive to many, the opportunity is 11 here There are states f ®t onen else possessing Inree areas o that may still be had at the reach ined ft good land prices within te dohtless <ervation it will these lands nr are their value. Then, the iands of Western at hold ont an inv! ¢ prices not ting pros. that srmers there is Reports from there show af the f nanerity not thiecal, Farming there (8 eon and The the ox The character inctes ) r principles he imate i teh as appenls repays all nditnre t} may he ma Ns farm keep are of life an the from pining social eondi that tends to Young woman life with so many drawhacks, make pleasure, and and urban If con show ing voung man for dittans as ahove mentioned. sich a large pergentage of popnlation in the cities and touns, continnes will require food supply it is hy Co forward to dependent, and sunplying the sheen, grain other ecommo the produce and resident of the city requires.— thes The opportunity to the menne suggested, the become In factor in needs in farm, become an world's cattle. and such ities nw farm wil) the Advertisement, His Plight. “Money can't “1 Know that, but all | are.the things that want money can do.” do everything. 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HALL/S CATARRH MEDICINE act through the blood on the mucous sur- faces of the system, thus reducing the In Sammation and restoring normal condi ong, Circulars free. All Druggists. F. J. Cheney & Co., Co a * There is nothing so thoroughly mis understood as perfection. 4s Garfield Tea keeps the liver normal, Ady, A bee and its. honey are soon parted; and the bee is no foul DIVO O0 00, 00, 0, 0 aad IIRIES CENTRE HALL, PA. Copyright 1920 by the Author. IN THE HOP JOINT. Synopsis. —Vaguely constlous of a double personality, but without any idea of its meaning the girl lLeo- nora, makes her accustomed way into the Street of Btrange Faces in the underworld of New York Marlo joins her. Greatly in love and seeing the fine qualities which the girl really possesses, Mario seeks to turn her from the path of Inevitable destruction. - 8he prom- ises to marry him At Ristori's cafe, gathering place of criminals, Leonora meets her partner, "Red" Carnehan, and his associates, and is accused of betraying a fellow criminal to the police. She sav agely defends herself. Police crash into the room and two are killed by Carnehan. Leonora and the rest SCA pe In her studio, Priscllia Maine, wealthy artist, awakes from troubled sleep with a distint feel ing of having her life linked with Leonora’'s. Priscilla has painted a picture of herself in fancy dresg- a gipsy--which has a strange effect on her, Unnerved, and fearful that her mind is affected, Priscilla calls to her ald a dear friend, Dr. Philip Fosdick, who is In love with her He is stunned to find that her dream story of the police fight is confirmed by the newspapers. Pris- cilla tells him about the mystery of her mother, who died when she was born He sees the effect of the painting and pronounces #t a case of auto-hypnosis Priscilla makes him promise not to go to the police and he begins investi gating It for himself Priscilla senses with cold fear danger which threatens Leonora CHAPTER FIVE Rendezvous With Destiny. I. THE CLOCK. — twenty minutes phoning and all her pa tience garnering snubs from one arro company of the gant cab after ane nn the stunned and cringing storm had pa completer subjugation city to y end less legions of the rain. 1 by Mrs dinner visit out of Her own car was being usec Trowbridge for a wrves the prospect of stopping rin the studio was ii . ming herself. the 1 locked where utes that bus consented to pick end of hb she had two | she wa seemed ten ptown Horks + to Park, before vith hat furs red, While her mald preg Pegred off by telend mornll engagement to ’ eon 1 forw: looking felt it would be Impos own, with anxiety on forever nd Leonora i ter 54 SIM ( A hot bath and should have lent her some tranquility, but did not, enge of neglige the ease of She made the merest dining fi She could “oi OO rit Past seven: in less th Leonora must start upon her journes And she could do nothing nothing! but « ait and wonder nd wring useless hands A little in the texture before ten an inexplicable of ber « change ausports had been reached and ng he mye 2, rt » “Charlie Anywheres About?” passed, Of a sudden she found herself more calm, not with the ealm of mis glvings set at rest, rather with that of courage dnuntlessly addressing itself to a forlorn hope. intultion divined the explanation: In that strange, deep sympathy which made them one, her mental and emo tional processes faithfully reflected Leonora's; whet agonies of doubts and ‘ears she had suffered tonight were but replicas of those which Leonora had suffered. But now “the time of waiting was no more : Leonora had left her hiding place and, committing her- self bravely to her dark adventure, had found relief in action. If only she might be with Leonora tonight any she had so often been, see- ing what she saw, doing what she did, knowing what she knew, participating in every reaction of her wits and per- ceptions Ouly if sf could sleep, It was pos- sible, she might dream | | Darkening her bedchamber, ghe went to the window, und tarried a little in its looking out, Rain still falling, torrential, lancing the night with its myriad slen- der, silver, brimming gutters, flooding sidewniks, blackening opened It, recess, was slanting Jets, that mirrored a multitude of lights, She thought of Leonora struggling through that scour- Ing tempest to an unknown bourne , . . The clock struck She turned herself down fen. back to her bed, without undress Immediately could threw upon It Ing, and closed her eves, opened them again: there 3 On her the clock « dressing table Convex aught a from some street Heht and was transfigured into the Hkeness of a little enptive moon of dead whi Ppon this, the room, Pri ly. | it. In which glare the tural brightest 1 i1 Was rewar began to ite cold light world, and "eon percep- ind she 1f as Pris entity. but anymous heing SCIOUsSnesY, “8 Incolierence THE STREET. pred ag sineont flesh of her before she her rough and so Corer HOPR were t8, harried ing temacionsly gress ineredibily not mind, but avage delight In bat ent, gaining eround iicions w» to that room of un- * WAS colnpen ¢ Talne sense Fea ot flings that she igh to render 1 clothing as cotnfort with 3 fey y % HE CILOIiny plastered her chilled bods her slim young #t the wind and fought it for es ery breath she relished the air, lenpmd howls giadly and step wet sweetness of the the motley But pardonably have for drowned city peopled by gray ghostly shapes, figures glimpsed darkly sweeping of rain as weeping windows, for one might Street f st taken the part of some waves doggedly against its howling But few such were visible under the lash Even the police hugged sheller. A night of terrer, she thought, with a «hiver as much of dread as of cold, pulsing in the lee of a corner to re. gain her breath before renewing con- thing wight happen . . Resolutely she put that thought be- hind her ; she did not dare tH be afraid. And lest she be tempted again to think and falter, she spurred herself pitiless ly on once more, At length she turned aside Ifito a sullen street, Hy lighted, wholly deso- Inte in all its visible length save for the shining welcome of saloon windows on the ground floor of a dilapidated dwelling in the middle of the street: beacons marking the end of the first stage of her journey. . Hl, THE HOP.JOINT. The saloon, a boozing Yen of the lowest order, occupied quarters first intended for a shop. Empty show win- dows, flanking a double doorway, were backed by screens of machine-carved wood stained to mock mahogany and bung with beer lihographs. To one side, under a sign-—gilt lettering on a black ground: “Family Entrance”—a single door stood open on a short halls way which led to n dreary room be hind the bar, where local sotx of both sexes sat in sodden congress over ta bles sticky with dregs, their feet senf. fling in coarse, damp sawdust. To the right of this door a window with a ledge broke the side wall, communicat. ing with the bar for the convenience of * neighboring ladies and other fastidious souls who, rather than risk social con. tamination by entering a common bar- room, fetched empty pails of tin apd carried them away filled with nourish- ment for home consumption. To the left a constricted staircase ascended to regions of uninviting darkness. Leo- nora, however, mounted with confi. dence and, finding a blank shut door at the top, planted a confident finger on a push-button which she could not possibly have located by sight. A venomous buzz responded. Shuf- fling feet drew near the door, in which a grille opened, letting out a shaft of strong light which fell squarely on the girl's face. She sald coolly: * "Lo, John, in” A chain bolt rattled, The door swung inward, Leonora entered, passed, faced the guardian of the portal—a Chinese, aged, shriveled of face, shrunken of body, lmpassive—whom she addressed with the brusque insouclance ot old acquaintance, “Charile anywheres about?” With racial economy of gesture the Chinese jerked a thumb rear of the nnd fasten the door, Le me toward the house turned to re Leonora moved down PE eh PER Inez Tightened Clasp on Leonora's Hand. hall, disdainfully sniffing tainted and entered a atmosphere was mephitic with the un. wickly fumes of Here, In half-curtained bunks thin upon the large room whose Eweet opium. or on maltresses floor, and lay in couth postures, deep in drugged stu- pors. One only was in apparently complete possession of her wits: the woman Inez of Leonora had seen nothing fateful night at Ristor!’s, Inez alone recognized in any way this addition to the compan® looking up with a sullen face from her seat on the edge of a mattress on which lay. with limbs aspraw! and face of ghastly pallor upturned to the dim light, his mouth half open, his eyes half closed, the thick stem of an opinm pipe dan. gling from limp fingers, the man whom Leonora had come to meet. In a seizure of dismay =o overpow- ering as to blind her completely to the sneer of gratification which Inez songht In valn to dissemble, Leonora dropped to her knebs beside the man and shook his shoulders with frantic hands, “Charlie!” she erled In a volce urgent with fright and entreaty-— “wake up, Charlie! For God's sake, wake up!” The man's head rolled from side to side with horrifying limpness, his lips moved tremulonsly without closing, otherwise he made no sign. He might have been lifeless, he had better been dead, Not one person in the room so much ns turned a head when the cries of the frantic girl disturbed the quiet, not even Inez; for though she had mastered her betraying smile, that one had no need to stir in order to watch Leonora. Evil exultation con. tinued to inform her cold eyes as long as they were unobserved; but Leonora found them quick with spe cious sympathy when, at length ap: preciating the futility of her efforts, she loosed her hold on Charlie's shoul ders and sank on her heels, “My God!" she said, with a stricken face—"what'm I going to do? “What's the trouble, dearie?’ Inez spoke with cloying sweetness, but the other was too far gone In despair to notice, or to care if she had noticed, “Anything I can do to help?” “I don’ know"—Leonora shook her head slowly—"guess not." “Whyn't you tell me and find out?” Inez leaned ncross the body of the drug victim and placed a coarse red hand affectionately over Leonors's, men women whom since that > in this mess together, ain't we?” “It's only Red,” Leonora responded dully. “He sald for me to come to him tonight. He sent word by Charlie -~giid I'd got to come tonight, Charlie promised he'd meet me here and show me the way, He wouldn't tell me— #nld Red made him swear not to, 1 don't see why . . ,. But 1 wish to God Charlie'd kept his word to me like he did to Red.” “What do you mean?” “1 was afrald of this” at the unconscious man. promised me he wouldn't more'n two pipes.” Inez laughed szhrilly, “Guess he must've had six,” she declared: “I rolled three pills for him since 1 came in." “And now he's down and out.” leo- She nod Sed Charlie sur ke CURES inez, I'm scared!” “You poor kid!” clagp on leonora's don’t have to worry. Red. at least” The which hand. “But you I'l take you to smile of conseions Inez conld not suppress ungpeakahly nnd buck vividly to mind the rivalry which offensive, brought which had flared up inte open ho at their last Hot ment kindled in Leonora's eves, color flushed her cheeks: but her the tongue, rencontre, resent. hot teeth into underlip nnd grimly fought down impulse to give anger that hut it Not only was Inez might fatal, than pride at stake precisely what wanted There wank there loved her and prove mare was the life who Nothing, indeed. Lint Mario had refuge for her will to threat of I Mario had gangRiers the the will. And f she quarreled with Inez would never show her T Iv. THE ROOFS. the 3 . night, the wind, the rain IZ rar Ine maze of murks imckwaye far fuous fill {teeming which, she tenements plucking leonora by the sleeve, In the nunsa lower hall “Not Leonora hore?” negative gesture: “1 VOrS spoke incredulously: inez should say not gave a Acrost the roofs » You don’t suppose I's to lead a dick to you? “You don't Leonora demanded In quick alarm Inez nodded emphatically. “I know we was” “Who was it? n such a simp as the right door, de think we're Could you see? “Nobody 1 ever seen before: a new bird, I guess, from some uptown pre. cinet. Coarse worker, too: he must've when fe came out, and trailed us all the wane ™ “Why didn’t you tell me? “What's the You know don’t you? It wouldn't ‘ve done you any good to know in the street, as iong’s 1 knew and had sense enongl. to lead him wrong, like this, |. | . C'mon” use? now They began to run up long Nights of stairs lighted only by single girs Jets low-turned on. every other landing, and noisome with stratified stenches of evil cookery and things worse yet: the predominating race tenanting each successive floor indicated by ite domi nant eMuvium, were it garlia boiled cabbage, fried fish, or the subtle, pene. trating, undisgnisable oder of opinm gtmoke. Gusts of voloes lifted in rude laughter or mere commonly quarrel some issned from doorways that stood as a rule wide. Once there was a sound of weeping, too, sickening dail walis, of some woman cruelly need And always the inevitable squailing of children fretful in unhappiness, | | On the top landing Inez pansed to peer over the rail, panted, sodding, Leonora joined her. of the gloomy, deep well of (he stair. case the foreshortened figure of a man was visible, his upturned fuce a mere binr of flesh color. 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