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Show H COUNTRY' AND CITY. H Te Farm Laborer's Lot Is Mot So Dud as Many Imagine H Those who work by the month on the H farm are apt to regard their eircUm- H stances with disfavor when they hear of H the wages which labor of no highei H ' jjrade commands in our large cities, llui H they will find, if they investigate the H mutter, that the farm laborer is usually H am well pnid or his city brother, and H oftentimes u great deal butter. In the H city of Pittsburgh at nresent nil the ear- H enters mjkI artisans of a similar grade M Hint are v. anted can he had for two dot- B Inrs per d.iv . Many cannot find worl: at H that. All .over western Pennsylvania m pood "enn:n:cn" labor can bo had at M price!) frou: enc dollar to one dollar and H fifty cents per day. Those who have H contracts for public works, such nsrali- m roads, pipe lines, etc., are overwhelmed M with npplica''nns for work. H Wages V'.i $1.50, 52, or $2.50 per day 1 lool; prt'l!;, " '. c the man who the year M round :;:kia t.-.it 53 cents in cash, but B they are r.ot no big as they look. Thc M are oftn i?ci:':,..,.'.!t. good mr.ny M 3killed hiLcrrs cr.r. v.orlc only a pari cf B the year, bv.t rer.t and other living rs B penses mr.nt bo :nU all the time. Thr H city Inborer mu.t pay cash for every- M thing, inclirJi:i ircay thJrgs: which ;ll 1 familiar, i ?3 '.ilhcr furnished orpenr.it- H ted toraif.'forLlirELlffreeof eost'k fn- B ess n worli'tjan of the two-dollar rrndt J has constant employment in a city like 1 Pittsburgh he in very likely to find the 1 balance on the wrong sid? at the end H dMIio year. 'If, he has a family to iu:f : B t port heTiiUf-to(tenllveincrni:pcdquar . ten., and must raise hi3 children air.'.C H ( Surroundings unfavorable to their p'aj- H slcal and mdrhl development. Contract H this picture with the man on the farm, H who, if jhc has, a family, is often fur- nished n house at little or no coy t, is per- H milted jfo rise i vegi tables, dairy H . product and meat, and is paid waenbe- H sides. Or with the single man who is H kept and if economical has most of h'.t H wages at the end of the year. The ecu- H try laborer who investigates the inat- H . tor thornu-hly will lw very slow tc H change his certain employment ard !;- H expensive living for a place where the H reverse in unfortunately loo common. H RntlonnI Stockman. HHb s HHk |