TOR IN THE CAPITAL
AND LABOR PROBLEM 299

37. THE CO-OPERATIVE FARM TRIUMPHANT 313

38. THE KINDERGARTEN AT SOLARIS 327

39. AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR 346

40. THE COMING ERA OF GOOD ROADS 362

41. CO-OPERATIVE ETHICS 371

42. RURAL LIFE UNDER THE REIGN OF CO-OPERATION 387

43. A TWENTIETH CENTURY HONEYMOON 416

44. THE NEW CRUSADE 423

SOLARIS FARM.

A STORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

CHAPTER I.

A FARMER'S SON WITH PROGRESSIVE TENDENCIES.

One bright summer afternoon, near the close of the month of August,
1905, two young college chums, Fillmore Flagg and George Gaylord, just
met after a long separation, were seated on a rustic bench near a
well-appointed mountain hotel. The superb view before them was well
worthy of their half-hour's silent admiration. Full one thousand feet
above the sea stands "Hotel Mount Meenahga" in the heart of the
"Shawangunks," a mountain range in the state of New York, famed for its
scenic beauty, cool dry air, pure water and commanding elevation.
Looking northward a most charming landscape presents itself, a wonderful
group of mountain ranges, stretching for seventy-five miles from near
the Delaware Water-gap eastward to and including the Alpine peaks of the
famous Catskills. Within this lovely semicircle lie the highlands of
Ulster, Sullivan and Orange, lifted like seats in some vast
amphitheater, tier above tier, while nearer a beautiful mingling of
villages and hamlets, broad fields, green woods and silvery
water-courses, constitutes a picture of enchanting beauty--a picture
constantly changed, shaded and intensified by broad patches of moving
shadow and sunlight from a great fleet of fleecy clouds sailing so
swiftly, so silently and so majestically across the summer sky.

"How exquisitely beautiful!" murmured Fillmore Flagg, "I wish I had my
camera that I might make it captive, carry it hence and keep it, a rare
token of beauty, a source of joy forever."

At this point, a brief description of the young men will serve by way of
a further introduction.

Fillmore Flagg was fully six feet in height, though his compact,
well-rounded figure made him seem less tall; his straight, muscular
limbs were i