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Show I.NULSTIMAI. TILLVO'ES. L1IOIITS TO UK-ESTAELIsll TlIrSE 3IUCII NKEDBI) COMMUNI- TIBS IN ILNGLAM). Tlio socitty for iiromoUiig the Cronrth of Industrial villages has :et twiorti itself an object with Hliich It ij Imiio-iblu not to -ruriathIze. The ag-jrvKatlori of nieu iu tovus and cities lias lieeu bliteically the condition of some of the gfeatwt anil i-routlcst acliieiemeuU winch human society can boast. Kut although al-though urlnn life lias iUatl vautagt, ami is iu ILi measure essential to the corioratc well being:, It lita its db-advantage db-advantage also and very srieroua these tibndvantagej are. The benefits bene-fits are obviou". It needs no comprehensive survey sur-vey or elaborate statistic to jirove that the near neighborhood of a town eiubhs its denizen to cooperate co-operate for Iht ir mutual advantage in a way iitille ioilo?ib!e to the duelltrs'lli rural district. ThU is obvious to the most oau J observation, observa-tion, and it lias tieenau clearly seen by Luluhmeii uilhiu the last li-tlf ctutury tliat a iierfevt rJJi has set iu of the rural iMpulaliou into towns, with the result that, while thedt latter liave grown with un-cxamiibil un-cxamiibil rji.itlily and attained un-IirecedeuteU un-IirecedeuteU iiruuortioii, many country districts iiiiu been almo-t dtnuded of IiihibitanU, and village?, vil-lage?, with their domestic indu-4ries and IutitutioHs, liae riliL-J in the shadow of c ilo-ssl iielghlurs. This holesale obliteration of tho village type lias undoubtedly in-oled in-oled a xenou lo to the community, com-munity, perbairt um a nalioual Io-. At any rate, the sentiment cannot be mistaken uhult has !ed .Sir George Campbell nd his as-ciatea as-ciatea to cast about for thu mean of restoring the ue-etted village, and reealliug iubl!caUeuIion to the -slbilllles of benefit to town and country alike in the prow-ion of nil cHitkt w'thiu our ohii bunkr for that most mr-erable and most dan gerousof all -smial growths a sur plus town pojKilation. t'iie dilTu-ion ef -mind views, and -till moie the tstablishit.entofsouiid praelice, iiisuiliamitttr must lie a work of time, and it may well be that the formulated programme of the society will t'e.subjett tJ con-slUerable con-slUerable iiuxiiltcation iu the light of experience, lut we are glad to learn "that l hty liavcmet with some measure oi" i.ncuuragem(n!. Among tlie inMaiices which are mtnttoned Ihe following is peculiarly peculiar-ly sati-factory: A West I.uJ firm of bootmakers ha for some time lost given to many of their older hands the privilege of living in the country, and having Ivti-s of materials sent to them enodieally, wlikli they return tilled with the manufactured artith-. The firm pay Lundoii wages aatl the men ay the carriage of the goods, reaping reap-ing the Kuellt of the lower rent, frt-Ji air and healthy surroundings of their rural cotlags life. Lornhn Laneti. |