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
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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
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“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. But some
thing individual in the pose caught
Leonora's eye and prodded wha! she
took for some memory half erased.
The treacherous Inez turns a
trick.
Discriminating.
J. Fulles Gloom-—*1 make a practice
of doubting everything ar Fon, nye,
except when he is denouncing »
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