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best message is contained in Mr. Bolton Hall's * Three 

 Acres and Liberty,' which you so kindly sent me with your 

 compliments. It is as fascinating as a story, as true as 

 history. 



" Down deep in the hearts of all there is a desire to 

 spend the last golden days of earth on a little plot of 

 ground in the country. It is the picture drawn by Hope 

 and colored by Faith, that makes life worth living in the 

 congested marts of trade. 



" Some day, somewhere, I'm going to have a little home 

 in the country ' nine out of ten people say this, believing 

 it will come true. 



" Railroad managers are deeply interested in this 

 problem, for next to a paying industry along its rails, 

 should be a paying farm, for without the farm there could 

 be no paying factory. The Industrial Departments of the 

 railroads have on file and are interested in giving out 

 literature, maps, and particulars in regard to vacant farms 

 along their lines. 



" The idea of making these desolate gardens of earth 

 bloom again like the rose ; to see the abandoned farm houses 

 filled again with bright-eyed, laughing children; to see 

 deserted fields covered with flocks and herds; to see again 

 the golden harvest days, is a consummation devoutly to be 

 wished, and there is no more blessed mission than bringing 

 it about." 



Still another enthusiastic note is struck by 

 Mr. Ira H. Shoemaker, industrial agent of the 

 Delaware and Hudson Railroad: 



"... I am in he.irty accord with the ideas which 



