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til their loss®* or grains run away up into the millions, and that’s a lauda ble business. These Wall Street ' Stock Gamblers can experience re verses, they can sustain losses, they can gamble to such extremes as makes continents tremble, and then, start a little flurry of a panic, and the vaults of the United States treas ury are opened up, and they are told to help themselves to as many mil lions of dollars of the people’s mon ey as they want without interest, to tide them over their reverses. But, the farmers are the bone and sinew of the land and it is upon their labors that all prosperity is erected. The drouth may consume their crops, the floods may wash them away, the storms may destroy them, the cater pillers and boll weevils may devour them, but the government vaults re main locked and barred and not one cent can they get of their own mon ey, no, not even at a high rate of interest. They can go to the old Nick, nobody cares for their disas ters! My countrymen, there is a remedy! The remedy will be applied. It will not be very long. Wait with patience. The sun will shine some day.— Jasper News. TEACHING FARMING. Nobody has yet tried to make a catalogue or a classification of all the multitude of subjects on which President Roosevelt has ideas. This work will remain for some patient man in the years to come. Very p * b ably it will take two men and possi bly their children. From talking on the forms of Cel tic verse to the best methods of keep ing an open range in Wyoming is an easy change for Theodore Roosevelt. He has a magnetic energy for pick : v<* up bits of copper, iron, steel, tin, brass, and other metals subject to electric influence and then reversing the current and throwing them out to the four winds of heaven. Occasionally he throws out some good thing that is pure metal. Such a bit was a paragraph in his speech at Keokuk, la., the other day. He said: “We should strive in every way to aid in the education of the farmer for the farm, and should shape our school system with this end in view; and so vitally important is this that, in my opinion, the federal government should co-operate with the state gov ernments to secure the needed change and improvement in our schools. It is significant that both from Minne sota and Georgia there have come proposals in this direction in the ap pearance „cf bills introduced in the national congress. At present there is a gap between our primary schools in county and city and the industrial collegiate courses, and, if necessary, the nation must help the state to close it. Our greatest national asset is to be found in the children. Thev need to be trained to high ideals of everyday living, and to high efficien cy in their respective vocations; we cannot afford to have them trained otherwise, and the nation should help the state to achieve this end.’* Os course there is an outcropping of that cld idea of federal supervi rion in the suggestion that the na tional government should aid the WATSON'S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. states. That is Roosevelt through and through. But is it such a bad ideal Would it be an unfortunate thing for the future generation of farmers to have such men as Secretary Wil son, Gifford Pinchot of the forestry department, or Coburn of Kansas, not a federal employe, bul a worker for Kansas and all the United States have a personal oversight and inter est in what is being taught in the pub lic schools! Suppose the Bureau of Animal Industry supervised a primer on dairying and raising beef cattle for use in the public schools! It might help some. The great thing about the President’s sugges tion is the importance of educating the fanner for the farm. If the states do it alone, well and good. But the farmers pay the bulk of the tax es which support the government and why shouldn’t they get some of the benefits! It would be better than subsidizing the shipping trust, or aiding the steel trust by a protective tariff, anyway. BACK TO THE FARM. Much consideration has been devot ed to the best method of keeping the boys on the farm. It is an admitted fact that a large percentage of the best and most intelligent sons of farmers have left the farm and sought the city to engage in other occupa tions. As the years go by, these numbers increase till it has become alarming. We have given this question much thought and we have concluded that the only way to keep the boys on the farm is to educate them to have a special interest in and respect for the farm. Much of the present day country school education tends to ed ucate the farmers’ sons and daught ers from the farm, when it should educate them back to the farm. The city schools, made up of the sons and daughters of the bankers, merchants, doctors and lawyers, educate the pu pils to especially qualify them so they can take up the work as bank ers, merchants, doctors and lawvers. The education given the country boys and girls also fits them so they can take up these same lines of business or professions, but it does not espe cially qusbfy them so they will be willing and anxious to take up the business of farming. , Director Burkett of the Kansas station hits the nail squarely on the head when he says: “Through prop erly conducted agricultural high schools, more than by any other means, can the tendency of our boys to go to the city and our girls from the home, be stayed. No other schools can or have it in their power to edu cate back to the land and the home, and not away from it. This is par ticularly true of their power over farm and village boys who attend them, and over the girls, whether city or country, who there learn, perhaps for the first time, that homemaking is something not to be ashamed of, but to be proud of, something of the real value of foods and balanced ra tions, for both man and beast, how to know them and how to make them; the importance of intelligent eare of both body and home, plain nursing, plain cooking, and plain living. This work, all to© often neglected, too of ten shunned and ashamed es, ea* through these agricultural schools be lifted to the high level where it be longs.”—Farmers’ Advocate. LEARNING A TRADE. The value of learning a trade be comes more and more apparent every day. Scarcely a week passes hut some man is asking us to print out a field of labor for him. With good attainments, perhaps, or an insatia ble desire to be at work at something whereby an honest penny may be turned, he finds himself landed, as it were, at the first ebb of the fid \ The slightest recession of the deposits him on the shore among weeds of idleness, and unwholesome vapors becloud his mind. Then* is scarcely a man in business but has an experience like our own; his young friends continually envying him the privilege of working in a well-defined field, and wishing that, like him, they had something to strike at. Those young men are generally af flicted with the disease of ambition. They want to be something more than common and, mistaking often their desires for the ability to satisfy them, they flatter themselves that they are fit for something better than the com mon run of humanity. Their great fault is in trying to achieve manhood without serving an appr nticeship to it, and they find themselves, when they should be prepared for their life work, wondering what it will b ’, and fretting because it does not declare itself, and in nine cases out of ten waiting in vain for such a call, go into politics, agencies, etc. The great remedy for all this says The Tennille Tribun’, is a trade thor oughly learned. The time between school and twenty-one should be spent at the carpenter’s bench, in a machine shop or at an anvil, so that when the young man commences his battle with life in any vocation he can, if worst ed at his first attempt, turn to his trade with confidence that his skilled labor will at least procure him a liv ing, and perhaps a competence. A trade to a man is as a deposit in the bank, which he may draw in time of need, or a paid up insurance against the sports of fortune. The sons of the German Kaiser are each taught some special trade, although in human probability they will never have occasion to work at it, but it is following the custom which has been in vogue in Germany for ages and which is no doubt one of the causes why Germans as a rule are sel-reliant and steadv-going. Under the gradually changing con ditions the waxres of skilled workmen are rising. In every city there are skilled workingmen who earn more money than many of the professional men, and whose work is really lighter and more conducive to health and happiness. The establishment of trade and technological schools is leading many young men to learn various trades, and their number should be greatly increased.— Augusta Herald. NEW THEME IN GEORGIA. Over in the good old state of Geor gia where the peach crop struggles an nually with the spring frosts and ths luscious watermelons peep tempting ly at the passing colored man fr< m a wealth of trailing vines they are get ting up new question* of ’lifimnsriss perhaps with a view of relieving the dryness of the situation after new year. The average Georgian delights in discussions. At almost any cross roads general merchandise store in the Cracker state the fates of the na tions are settled from the top of a molasses barrel or a soap box. The woods of Georgia are full of men who are too busy elucidating the po litical or economical situation to split kindling for the kitchen stove, and the women of the rural regions have fully developed their biceps accord ingly. Politics is not especially eruptive in Georgia at this time, so many of those who thrive on controversies having sought other themes. One of them which bids fair to develop a variety of views has arisen in the shape of a contention between the doctors and the druggists. The doc tors appear to think the druggists are not so good as they should be, while the druggists claim that if the whole story were told some new lights and shadows would appear round about the doctors. Without being in a position to speak authoritatively on either side, and with no purpose to reflect in any way, we suspect that the patients could find something to say if they were called upon to freely express their views. Whether the doctors or the druggists have saved more lives is a question that will probably never be satisfactorily settled. Indeed, there be some, perhaps disciples of the pessimistic school, who seriouslv question whether a sick man has as much show in the care of the doctors and druggists as if left in the hands of nature, though even these usually send for doctors and swallow their physic when they reach the despera tion stage of the game. It was the late Bill Nye, we believe, who said that when he recovered from an attack of fever which was grap pled with by three doctors he had sev en dollars left but no constitution. And yet both the doctors and the druggists are looked upon by the great majority of real or imaginary sick folks as friends in need. A large part of their success depends upon whether or not their patients have faith in their knowledge and skill, and this will no doubt enter into tho discussion in Georgia as a more or less effective argument. Meantime both the doctors and the druggists in good old Georgia will continue to prescribe for anybodj who has the price, and will exhaust all the known remedies in their re spective lines for the future except that which is often prescribed for snakebites.—Birmingham Herald. The Columbus (Ohio) common council is considering ways and means of preventing people from committing suicide in that city. Why not furnish them with the means to get out of town? From Redlands, Cal., comes the story of a trout wearing a watch and chain that fell from an angler’s pocket and became entangled in the fish s gills. If this sort of thing con tinues, the President may have to appoint an able man to th© position of assistant squelcher of nature fa kir©. PAGE SEVEN