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Show BADEN LOSING ITS PEASANTRY. Th Hark Forrst It Itrporttd a Almoit Ifpoulatid hr Um-nrnnient lluyeri. Bkklix, March 18. Tho Baden government gov-ernment is losing its reputation as a model administration and is making itself it-self unpopular by its policy of buying up small farms and driving tho settled peasantry into the cities to sweil the mass of discontented workmen. Tho farmers of the lilack forest, who measured meas-ured their fortunes by the sizo of their measure hoops, as Mark Twain picturesquely pictur-esquely puts it, have greatly diminished in number during the last two years, and their acres are now to a great extent covered with tho young trees planted by the state. It is admitted that fair prices are given for the biddings, but tho ready cash thus suddenly thrust into tho pockets of the people, peo-ple, who never or very seldom were in the habit of holding the commodity, is in itself a misfortune. So great has been the depopulation of the lilack Forest than no fewer than six peasant schools have been closed since the beginning be-ginning of the present year. The state is now in treaty for the purchase of the village of Fauldenherst.near Borndortf, which means that 150 well-to-do families fami-lies will be scattered over the country to find new habitations as best they can. Business people iu the neighborhood consider those villagers the most prosperous pros-perous of their class iu tho country. Their only misfortune is that their homesteads happen to be situated in a government forest domain. The socialists so-cialists say that the egotism of the monarchical system is digging its own grave. |