290 HISTORY OF THE GRANGE MOVEMENT; OR, 





ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA. 



men, seeing the fate of their fathers, their lives of con- 

 stant toil, and the hopelessness of realizing a proper 

 return for their industry, are leaving the farm and 

 flocking to the great cities, to seek in other pursuits 

 the rewards denied them in the calling they prefer, and 

 to which they are best suited. They leave behind 

 them the sweet restraints of home, and the happy in- 

 nocence of a country life, and come to the cities to 

 meet trials and temptations to which they too often 

 fall victims. 



The young women, dismayed by the hard lot of 

 their mothers, and wishing to escape from the drudgery 

 which is the inevitable doom of the farmer's wife, 

 follow the example of their brothers. They come to 



