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(Copyright. 1011. liy Frank G. CarnenUr.l
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Sam, patriarch, Is the preat
tst teacher on earth, lie has
an army of 19.CO000O common
wrani . i 1 ,, . . . .
iiiwd ,l"uul tniiaren, ana ni com
iiion pchool teaohei number
more than 000.000. Ills public school prop
erty Is vaiurd at more than ll.OKOt.'O.O'W,
and he la spending- upon iuch education
about !W0C0,(O0,000 a year. He has
hundreds ot nillUoni Invested In acaaemlea
and collPRes find In. the jnelghboi hood of
6OC.00O boB and Rlrts are In yearly at
tendance, upon them. .These are h,s
figures, but they fall short of showing
what Is now going on. Uncle Sum haa
been lying awake at nights studying how
to bring education to all his chl.dren, and
Ms plans' Include the grown-ups as well
as the batlts. ; ;
Waking: l'p the American Brain.
Indeed, aur - national brain Is being
roused aa never before. Every depart
ment of the government Is stimulating It,
and the T.-lres are 1 aching out from here
to every man, woman and child In the
country. In this letter I want to show
omethlng. of what Is being done for the
people outside tho cities. Ihe bulk of
our population Is In the country, and one
of the greatest .movements of the time Is
that for the improvement of the country
school.
We all know of the little frame school
aouse. There are several hundred thou
sand of. them in the United States. They
popper the union, and in most cases etch
Is taught tby ." one man or .cne woman.
Borne of Hhtso chool houses have lss
than a dozen' pupils..' Kansas, has more
than 1.CC0 with an. attendance of 'ten or
less.- Maine has more than 2,000' schools
of one room each, and 200 of these hsve
'less than eight pupils. Michigan has 1,M0
schools of ten students, and Nebraska hss
1,200 of the tame character. In Hardin
county, Iowa, where the land Is worth
tlW) an aero and the farmers are com
paratively rich, there aro a large number
of schools where the average attendance
is less, than six, sixteen district schools
whose averago attendance la only five.
The same conditions prevail, all over, the
country...-. . .
Go 1 11 y to School in Wagons.'
The advanced movement, provides for
the wjpintf out of theso little schools arid
the organizing of large ones . at such dis
tances apart that many of the children
muKt be brought in carriages or wagons.
It presupposes ono large grade! .school
for every twenty or forty squure miles.
The nearby children walk, and those who
live on, the outskirts ride. The schools
organised havo an attendance of several
hundred. , . The pupils are given a thor
ough, education and the chlid starts In at
the kindergarten and comes out at the
high , school. In some schools the high
school Is omitted, but there are eight
year of graded school, with a grade
for each year, and In this way the coun
try bpy or girl gets a schooling which
compares well with that of the best
schools of our cities.
This. , consolidated school system is
Slowly, working Its way over the union.
It Is now in existence In thirty-two dif
ferent states and there are more than
2,000 such schools in operation. It is esti
mated that the number will eventually
be 30.000 and that two-thirds of the small
rural schools which now exist will have
been done away with.
The'.' bringing of the children to school
In wagons has been found to be of great
success. The transposition per pupil
costs but a fuw tenia a day, and the ex
pense is small In comparison with the
advantage gained. In Massachusetts,
where tho system is in thorough opera
tion 'and -covers the stute, the amount
spent for transportation is about $300,0t0
a year. In Indiana It is only a little less,
and in Vermont It Is about f75,0O0. In
Florida the schools have been consoli
dated In thirty ullfei en t counties, and
the cost of currying the chfiJien to school
Is 125,000 per school yeai. . . .
Passing; of tho I.o Sclioolliouac,
This movement menus the passing away
of the log Bciiool house, the d school
house and the little frame shuck. It
means the erection of big school build
ings, .well ventilated and lighted, with
Steam heat and all tho comforts. 1 have
ILEY.
.TORIUM
This Institution W the only one
In the central west with separate
buildinga situated in tbetr own
ample grounds, yet eiiluco
dUUnct and rendering It pobaibla
to tlaisUy cases. The one bunUluk
being fitted for and devoted to the
treatment of noncontagious " and
noameutal diseases, no ottura being-admitted.
The o'bur licit
Cottage being designed for au4
devoted to the exclusive treatment
ot select mental oases, requiring
for a time watchful caro anU spe
cial nursing.
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Josephine Le Fcvre Company
rhlladslplUa, Pa.
Sold by Beaton Uru Co., the Ball Drug
Co., and the bennctt Company, Omaha.
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before me photographs of some of these
new country, schools. Here Is one at
Kinsman, O. It Is built of brick, with
a slate roof and It has two stories andi
basement. It has five class rooms, a
laboratory and a library. It cost 19,000
to build, and Its pupils number about 100.
Here Is onothor at Twin Falls. Idaho, In
a district of thirty-six square miles and a
population of 4,W. This is a finer build
ing than that at Kinsman, and very much
larger. The school there has an enrollment
of 726, of whom 300 are brought In daily
In wagons. Four years ago the ground on
which the building stands was covered
with sage brush. It has now been turned
Into a school farm, and the school has
two acres of playgrounds. At the Ohio
school It costs t cents a day per pupil to
lrng them to school. Another photograph
shows a school at Trumbull county, Ohio,
and another one at Greene Center, In the
same stste. One of these buildings Cost
$7,000 and the other $9,000. Kach keeps
eight or ten wagons to bring In the pupils.
It Is found that more children are
going to school In the districts where the
schools have been consolidated. There are
low about 8,000.000 children In the coun
try schools, whereas there Bhould be
6,000,000 or 7,000,000. When this new move
ment Is well under way . education will
probably, be compulsory everywhere, and
every country boy and gtr will get an
education. ' .' ,
Theso new schools are especially ad
apted to the farmer and to arm life. In
addition tp the regular courses as taught
in the city schools, they have some spe
cial studies bearing upon crops and home
economics.' I have before me an outline
of the work of one of the schools. In the
nret aud second years nature study formj
a part and In the fourth year the geo
graphy is to a. large extent physical.
showing the work, done by nature In pre
paring tne aoil ror us. It also includes the
distribution of our farm products al over
the world. The higher grades have lessons
lu agriculture, and among the studies of
the seventh and eighth years are co
operative enterprise in farming and mat
ters connected with the farmstead and
home. The children leain all about ani
mals, and the boys are taught how to
judge a horse and cow. Tho girls learn
all about sewing and cooklnsr as vaII n
how to make the house beautiful gnd
the home pleasant,
lu some of these schools the work be
gins with the kindergarten and ends at
the high school.
Take Lima township, Indiana. The enn
solidated school there contains 20 child
ren, and of theso ninety are In the high
school! The teachers of the high schools
are college graduates and those of the
grades are normal graduates. The build
ing has a reading room and a library, and
adjoining the school grounds Is a school
garden of 1M0 plots. The children hava
school puper, an orchestra and a band,
and a boys'-aud-girla''
have athietlcs and also a lecture course.
I hat sellout is made up of a conQii,i.i
of a number of one-room country schools
eacn 01 wnicn had but one teacher.
scnool Caracas aad
School Farm.
nearly all of the
new schools have
fccnooi gardens and little farms
con-
c.u win mem. in them, the children
raise vegetables and flowers. Thrv studv
the soli and learn how and why Plant.
grow. They are taucht all h.,t ,1,.
work of the roots and stems and leaves,
ihey are shown how to grow fruit and
are taught budding and grafting bv h.
mg mad, to do these things themselves.
ine. Agricultural department sends out
a great number of bulletins for these
achools. with the Intention that h. k.
uatd by the puj-lls and teachers. One of
hese Is entitled -School Lessons on
torn, which shows Just how com shoulj
bo grown. Another bulletin .lo.l., .....
plant production and school exercin.
therefor. In this the children aro tamrht
all about, plants by growing them them-
ocjvcs according to the dliectlons. An
other paper shows how to lest .farm
eeds at school and at home, ily nuans
of this a child learns whether the clover
tr alfalfa teed tils father Is using Is
pure or whether it is mixed with weeds.
He learns to know what good seed is
and liuw well It pays to plant It. These
hool gardens are now being Introduced
mo the city schools. A space as big
a hall bedioom suffices to make one.
t'pon this a half doaen vegetables can
bo grown and by rotation sf crops these
can be changed from time to time. In
tome cases vegetable and flowers are
grown upon such a plot.
Tcs-tm School Uroisst.
Connot ud with some of the s hools ar
hotbeds and orchards as well as barns
for animals and pens for pigs. The
ideal school should have about ten acr
for farms, gaidens and other work. It
should have Its poultry yard and Its for
est plot. The boys compete at home aa
to the fattening of pigs and also la plow,
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Ing, corn-raising and In the growing of
strawberries and small fruits of various
kinds. The girls have competitive ex
aminations In house decoration and In
the preserving of vegetables and fruits.
Many Dew text books are being made
for these schools. Educators are block
ing out courses of study in agriculture
and home economics of the various
grades. Text bookj aro being written
on farm management, fruit raising, live
stock, dairying and home making. The
agricultural high schools are being sup
plied with barns, laboratories and prac
tice shops. Many of them are equipped
with libraries on farm subjects, and new
books have been written to supply this
demand. In . the rural school books the
Illustrations deal with farm life. In his
arithmetic examples the child figures on
bushels of grain and the sale of crops,
and In his geography he follows the
wheat and corn raised on his home farm
across the oceans and thus studies his
over-seas customers.
Unele Ham's Asrrlcoltural CollesT'Si
In addition to the work in connection
with the schools the government Is do
ing a great deal through the agricultural .
.colleges. Nearly all of these are supported
by the states or the nation,, and they
now form one of the most powerful of
our educational forces. '" ,.
There are altogether sixty-five tit these,
colleges, coveting every part of the union.
They own property which Is, valued , at
more than $100,000,000, and their, income
Is something like $30,000,000 a year. They
have about 7,000 students who are taking
agricultural courses alone, and through
their correspondence and other courses,
counting none twice, they have ISfi.OOO
students.
In connection with these ' colleges a
great deal of extension work la carried
on. By this I mesn through movable
schools and the correspondence courses
and In other ways, by which those who
cannot attend college can study, at home.
In the correspondence course the
students carry on their studies at their
farms, and the work la directed -from the
colleges. By this means a man or boy
In the wildest part of the far west or the
south may got nn education in. farming
or fruit growing. There are ' 80.00)
students now studying that way, and this
number will be Increased to hundreds of
thousands In the future.
The various extension schools are car
ried on by farm lectures and In other
ways. The mqvable schools .consist of
grown-ups who gather together for fixed
periods at certain places and are taught
by the Department of Agriculture. It is
advised that the classes consist of not
less than eight nor more than fifteen
persons who are over 18 years of age,
and who are especially interested in the
subject of which the course treats. Ths
courses deal with home economics and
with all sorts of farm topics.
Asjrtcaltaral federation.
And Just here 1 want to speak about
the bureau of expeilment stations and the
Mindeitul work they are doing along ed
ucational lines. This branch of the De
partment of " Agriculture is under 'the
cha.ge of Vr. A. C. True, who has de
veloped It to such a degree that Its wor
now reaches every part of the country,
it Is of enormous value In Its ies.;uirh
work and Its exhibitions of practical ag.t
cu.iuio; and lis educational work aliects
every man, woman and child In the 1 ntieu
States. This bureau l as to do In an
advisory way with ths .agricultural col.
icgea. Alany of the stations are con
ivcted wiiu me col.egts, and Some of Hie
officers are teachers, therein. It' do. s
much In college extension work, and tt
is now stndlng' out ,cry year 'aoout
-4,000.00 copies of! bulletins Cviilaln.ng
ag lcuituial information.
The bureau of experiment station's eajs
-iso wuii the farmers' institute, a branch
of which is under the direction of Air.
jOhn Itamllron. the farmers' Institute spe
cialist. There were mote than 6,0uu of
these institutes which had regular meet
ings last year, and Uiey reached over
J.OU0.W0 , people.- Thev had altogether
16,000 sessions. Then, are also a large
number of farmers: Institutes for young
people and bf farmers' . Institutes f ir
women. The latter held 732 meetings In
1M10. Theaa farm institutes are largely
supported by. the ststs boards of sgrl
culture, each ot which has Its Institute
director, and connected with him a lec
ture bureau, which sends out specialists
to the Institutes, giving them leotures on
sny farm topic they desire. . Allied to
these institutes sre the county fairs, of
which more than l.fj are supported by
the counties alone.
Lantern glide Leetnrea for Farmers.
Of late the Department of Asrlcultur.
hss been sending out a number of lllus-
traud lec fares u , at
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colleges, farm lnstltftte, extension courses
and the farm clubs all over the country.
Kach lecture has forty or fifty lantern
slides connected with It, and also a bulle
tin of Information describing the slides.
Here, for Instance, Is a syllabus on the
helpful hen. It Is accompanied by forty
four slides, and It tells how to raise fowls
and how to market them. Its pictures
show all sorts ot chickens and eggs,
geographically depleting how fowls vary
In their production from some hens which
lay 2b0 egps a year to others which lay
none at all. The lecture states that our
farms are now producing $ts.0uo,ooo,000
worth of poultry per annum, and the crop
ranks among the greatest of those which
come from the farm.
Another lecture relates to the csre of
milk, . showing ; that our dairy crop Is
worth about $i00,000.000 per year, and
how we have 18,000,000 milch cows In the
United States to supply it. It tells Just
how., the cow and its milk should be
treated . and how to get the most money
out of all dairy' products . . - ,
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Teaching; Farmers from Trains,
Another . feature of this educational
work '.of .Uncle Ram ,1s carried on in con
nectlon,. with: tho trains, XVt'year fifty
two. 'of. our 'leading . railroad companies
were aiding.. the-government In teaching
farm ' education. Thoy ' employed , E
school cars, and sent them over- 40,000
miles of track. Their trains made 1,800
stops, and at each place a corps' ot ex
pert lecturers delivered talks upon agri
culture and domestio science adapted to
the locality. Tho total cost of operating
each train. was something like $95 a day,
and the total amount spent ' was over
$50,000. This teaching reached hundreds
of thousands of people.'""It embraced a
total of about 4,000 days- ot lecturing, or
a period equal to fourteen years of 800
days each. , ' -
, Kach of these educational trains had a
locomiaiive, a baggage car and one. or
wo coaches fitted up for lecture pur
poses. It also carried a ruliman car,
with a dining room and sleeping quar
tern for the lecture force. -The lecturers
were from tho national and statu depart
ments of agriculture, and from tbe col
leges. The subjects wero chosen "to fit the
locality where the lectures were flveq
In a dairy country the talks were on
dallying, and the trains frequently car
ried dairy cattle, anil specimens of but
ter and cheese, and all sorts of dairy im
plements to illustrate the work. In a
fruit country tho trains liad fruit exhibits
and In a stock country they had hogs
and cattle of various kinds. In the
wheat and corn lands the lecturers talked
wheat and corn, and in some' other places
they talked cotton or triirk gardening.
These educational trains have their ad
vance agents. The farmers know when
they are coming, and they gather In
crowds at the stations. The railroads
realise the value, and say that such edu
cation has materially added to their
traffic. Indeed, the freight from the
farms has much to do with paying the
dividends of the railroads. In 1909 of all
the freight carried Ml.OOO.OtO tons was
made up of agricultural products. Of
this 97,000,000 tons came from the forest
snd 73,000,000 tons from the farms proper,
while 20,000,000 tons were made up of ani
mals and other products. The average
received for this stuff, ton per ton, was
far above that of coal and some other
minerals. FRANK O. CAUPKNTEK.
Hot Water Bottle
Absolutely one piece of
moulded l'ara Rubber no cc.
; ment, seams, joints or wire
nothing to give way under tho
action of hot witer,
, That's why it is sold to you
; under a strict guarantee irvstea'l
. of a "('uutloii" against boiling
' water
Best of all.K costs
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B tho Nemo "Self -Reducing" Corset haa mado u&Mv supporters K7W 111
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made for STOUT women
that false Impression we shall sell, this week,
in leading stores throughout the United States
120,000 Nemo "1912 Special" Corsets
An Entirely New "Laslikops". Model
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T..9 purpose of this Half-Price Sale is to demonstrate, in the most practical and con
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To verify this claim, and to place the great "1912 Special" within tho reach of every
woman of slight or medium form, we willingly make the sacrifice necessary to give, you a
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If every man and every woman would begin now to
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front row of tbe next generation would not be bald-headed
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Falling hair means trouble. The dandruff germ . la
there and will In a abort time ruin the beat head ot hair
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Too many people, finding they need a hair remedy,
allow themselves to be duped into buying and using some
thing said te be Just as good or very much like Newbro's
Herplclde. '
why do it? Such a remedy la but an Imlta
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Newbro's Herpicide
Saveo the Hair
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Herplclde poaaesaes a tlttlkate fragrance which appeals
St roll sly to persons of taste and refinement.
Ihe Hoplclds Co., l'tL lorir Hetrolt. MU'h., will scud a
nice sample and booklet to any addrexs upon receipt of 10 cents
In titamps or silver.
one dollar bottles are sold and cuiiranteen by alt druirsiata.
ppllratlons may be hud at the better barber shopa ant. .a.t,
drcMSers. SJhcrn.an t- McConaoll lrutr Co., corner ltttli ajid .
liodKe Htn., corner 16th and Harney, corner 24th and rirnam,
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10th and Farnam Sts.,
Omaha.