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place in the comity fair and compete
for prizes. Practical instruction in
the care and use of a school garden
should be given in the county insti
tute. The best way is not known ,
but if many people work for it , a
better way will be found.
I do not know the best method of
teaching practical , scientific agricul
ture , but I do know where I like best
to get my practical information , and
that is from some successful farmer ,
and if I were in charge of a county in
stitute , I should take great pleasure
in arranging for a series of lectures
from men who had been particularly
successful in some department of agri
culture. These men would make up
in force and originality for any lack
of elegance in their diction , and
there might be found those who had
something to say and the way of say
ing it too. The paper on alfalfa in
The Conservative of September 12 ,
1901 , byH. D. Watson , .represents a
type of article that would make excel
lent instruction in a county institute.
In Other Schools.
In the industrial school at Hamp
ton , Va. , they have taught agricul
ture successfully by the out-door
experimental method supplemented by
technical instruction in the school
room. From Hampton have come
Booker T. Washington and the hosts
of industrial workers who are help
ing to give a new solution to the race
problem.
The date palm now grown in Ari
zona came in with the Catholic mis
sions , from the mission gardens of
California came the mission grape. In
England they are establishing rural
schools patterned after the old New
England farms. It is thought that
the all-round training they afford ,
make for the best and fullest develop
ment. If the schools of Nebraska
are conducted in a spirit of wisdom
they will utilize their opportunities
and raise at the same time education
and agriculture to higher planes.
The schools will serve the state and
educate a race of farmers. They
will at last have the courage to break
away from the fallacy that an individ
ual may be educated for one kind of
life , and he is thereby better fitted
for something else.
Education serves a good purpose but
it is not always and at all times an
unqualified good. It does sometimes
unfit men for life. JLet us admit it
and make suitable provision against
this unwelcome fact.
The ideal farmer is one who has
the proper blending of general intel
ligence and steady habits of work.
i He is a man open to the influence of
new ideas , but not one of those hair-
brained creatures who spends his sub
stance on every new invention. The
adjustments of his life are in the line
of agriculture and ho finds his fullest
satisfaction in developing the pos
sibilities of his farm. He remains on
the farm , not because of inertia , but
for the more fact that he is too
much of a clod to move out and
do anything else. He is tied to his
farm by active interests.
I have never seen the ideal farmer.
Many I have known who suggest him.
They lead me to believe that he is a
possibility. Perhaps the schools of
the future will create him , or rather
they may in part restore that which
present school ideals have done much
to'destroy.
LOUISA M'DERMOTT ,
Fort Lewis Indian School ,
Breen , Colorado , Nov. 10 , 1901.
The demand for
DEMAND doctors declines as
DECLINES. intelligenoe be
comes more and
more general. Among savages ,
in tribes , the medicine men are
very numerous and faith in their
supernatural powers is general.
But barbaric ignorance is giving way
before civilization , and educated people
generally know something of anatomy ,
physiology and the rules of health.
Thus the demand for doctors is declin
ing as mankind comes more and more to
know something of the human organ
ism and its conservation.
The spread of legal knowledge among
the people and the numerous "form
books"which teach
Lawyers. the laws of business
and furnish skele
tons for contracts , deeds , wills , leases
and all other legal documents are con
stantly repressing and restricting the
demand for lawyers. The more the
masses of the people learn , the less they
need lawyers. The wisest citizenship
is that which settles commercial differ
ences outside of the courts. The more
the people know of the laws and methods
of business , the less they wish to know
of lawyers. If the boasted system of
American public schools , which gives
education away as the sun sheds light ,
is worth half as much as its advocates
and eulogists claim for it , there can be
no demand for either doctors or lawyers
in the near future , except by the
ignorant and criminal classes. Doctors
and lawyers will decline in numbers
and in value if our school system ripens
fruit equal to its promising blossom.
And , furthermore , the decline in the
demand for clergymen , for pastors , for
preachers , priests
The Clergy , Too. and ministers of the
gospel will likewise
weaken and wither. All this present
demand for doctors , lawyers and theo
logians arises from imperfect intellect
ual and moraldevelopment. And when
the vast free school systems , which with
free universities embellish and tax
every state in the American Union and
teach every known science under the
stars , shall have made everybody
learned and everybody good , the de
mand for gentlemen in either of the
.earned professions named will be
zero.
zero.A
A people whose free schools have
made them all skilled anatomists , physiologists
elegists and pathologists all judicially
learned as to all laws and all profound
moralists and philanthropists , will not
demand scientific aids from any sort of
specialists.
Gab , either oral
MORE GAB. or written , . is al
ways coming in av
alanches from the expansive and com
placently smirking mouth of the popu
list candidate for the presidency. Since
the last election in Nebraska his words
have fallen faster and more furiously
than flakes in a January snow-blizzard.
It is evident to the plain-people leader
that the American people endorsed ,
with unanimity , the money fallacies of
the Chicago platform when first cooked
up at Chicago and also when warmed
over at Kansas City. The great gab-
ster indicts plutocracy , aristocracy and
dollars-above-the-nmuism for having
misdirected and miscounted the ballots
of the United States. It is evident to
his stupendous perception that the
American Republic has been cheated
out of much advancement and exalta
tion by his wickedly secured defeat for
the Presidency. It brings tears into the
eyes of people , potatoes and needles to
read of the depths of depravity to which
gold standardites dove for the purpose
of bringing up victory for their cause
by the hair of the head. It is , how
ever , solacing to know that in reality a
majority were for 16 to 1 against the
Supreme Court , and only anxious to
have Tom Watson's running mate for
President !
The Examiner , a
PAINFUL. very bright and
-conducted
weekly published and edited by Alfred
Sorensen , at Omaha , pains The Conservative
vative very much by its utter disrespect
for the recently elected United States
senator from Hastings , the Hon. O. H.
Dietrich. Mr. Sorensen is a very terse ,
sharp writer and turns the battery of
his sarcasm and irony upon Dietrich with
disdainful disregard of all the regula
tions of the humane societies of the
United States. He classes Senator Diet
rich with Hoar of Massachusetts and
Foraker of Ohio , and then describes him
as ' 'pushing" through a bill to make the
carnation the national flower of the re
public of the United States of North
America , the Sandwich Islands , Porto
Rico and tho.Philippines.
It is to be hoped that in due time the
Examiner will make amends for its re
cent onslaught upon former Governor
Dietrich ,