a
protector, whose wisdom and integrity, should at all times, prove
sufficient for the needs of the hour. Are you satisfied, my dear girl?
Have I faithfully kept my promise?"

"Yes, father! I am more than satisfied! I am a contented woman, I am
very happy! The quiet delicious calm of my happiness, is a new
experience for me. Heretofore, I had supposed that happy women must be
vivacious and voluble, from the very effervescence of their happiness.
Now I know that it is not so. Your characteristic words of praise, for
the one I have chosen as a husband, have made me very proud of him and
deeply grateful to you! In him, I have found the promised friend,
counselor and protector; also, an ideal lover. But, my dearest, kindest,
best of fathers; you know very well, that to trust you implicitly, is a
law of my life! I have always trusted you! Therefore, I am not
disappointed; neither am I very much surprised. I am just perfectly
happy. That is the whole story in a nutshell!"

"This is as it should be, my children! When I first saw you, Fillmore, I
felt intuitively, that you and Fern were made for each other. I knew I
could trust you together, to finish my work. Now, I rejoice, that my
intuitions were so prophetic!

"In your work at Solaris Farm, Fillmore, you have succeeded beyond my
most sanguine hopes. I congratulate you heartily, my son, on this
initial success for the co-operative movement! This is but the beginning
of the work. As we go farther, wider fields are opened for more extended
efforts. You have already correctly surmised, that selfishness in
humanity has become so dominant, so crystallized, from long centuries
under the heartless reign of competition, that only a far-reaching, well
organized, especially designed scheme of education, can conquer the
evil. By means of this educational program, we shall be able to open the
eyes of both poor and rich, to the benefits of co-operation.

"It has been wisely and truthfully said, that: 'The destruction of the
poor, is their poverty. That conversely, the poverty of the poor, is the
real power of the rich.' In these two short sentences, we have the most
scathing indictment against present social and industrial conditions,
that could be made! These conditions are wickedly abnormal! They are
entirely out of harmony with the law of progress, and of planetary
evolution! To change them for something better, is the crying need of
the hour!

"It were a mercy to both rich and