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deer! I recall a saying of Mr. Beecher, 

 that it was a great pity that people had to 

 be born in India in order to hear Henry 

 Scudder, the missionary, preach. Must 

 we move to the mountains and the woods 

 and live irregular lives in order to get that 

 help for our common interests which none 

 but the State can give ? 



How to Increase Earnings 

 There are ways by which our New York 

 lands can earn more money, and the State 

 is bound to help find them. We are not to 

 do just as other states do. We have not the 

 corn lands of Illinois and Iowa, nor the 

 wheat lands of Minnesota and the Dakotas. 

 But we have abundant facilities for pro- 

 ducing things they can not grow, and we 

 are close by great markets from which they 

 are remote. But it would be well if we 

 could see how much they are ahead of us in 

 an all-important matter. That is, in the 



