THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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The foregoing, of course, is only a very superficial discussion of 

 the important principles which have been advanced as the foundation 

 of colony- making. In an article of this length it would be impossible 

 to enter upon the subject in detail. The point is that these principles 

 are real and not imaginary and have been abundantly vindicated by 

 experience. 



(The next article in this series will be entitled, "Ways and Means 

 for Settlers, " and will discuss the important question of how homes 

 are to be made not only for those possessing sufficient ready capital 

 themselves, but for those who must accumulate it in the future and 

 for still others who can only hope to obtain it by means of a loan. 



AN OLD FASHIONED HOME. 

 BY MARIE MADISON. 



In a quaint, old country village, 



Far from the city's mart, 

 From its greed and grind and vanity, 



And shallowness apart ; 

 In a quaint, old-fashioned cottage 



Lives this woman of to-day, 

 To a by-gone life still clinging, 



Treading still its vistas gray. 



