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Show school, which develops a sense of responsibility. Their earning8 during this time are peculiarly their own, and each one may make hia deposit in one of the banks of the town and keep his own amount. That thiebgnkaccount seldom survives s winter, nnless its owner has some de6nite pnrpse in view, one can easily under-stand. All around Hampton the Indian can k d men and woman situated very muoh as their older people at home. To these they lend a helping hand. The other day I met the sou of a Sioux chief coming home cheerfully swinging his saw and hammer fromalittle cabin where he had been putting np posts for a clothes line to take the place of some unsightly brush that had been serving that purpose in the front yard. The girls, too, find nnmherless things to do. With' spade and hoe andrake they lay out grass plots, flower beds, and vegetable gardens where only waeds had grown before, and make the shabby little yards to blossom as the rose-and the cabbage. If the school service could employ among the more needy tribes one or moremen or women to act as guides to our freshly wound np students, much of the work that is now being lost might be saved to us. Such a erson could greatly aid the student in putting into practice the nsnful things he {earned at school, and could also assist in providing a medium of exchange between him andavailahle markets. Every Indian school should have shops where the more serviceable trades would be taught, but its strong pointshould be its farm. This shonld include, if practi-cable, the raising of stock, of poultry, and a dairy-an everyday object lesson to the people of the reservation. As many nccasions as possible should he mated to bring the people directly under the school's influence, mother's meetings, conferences, and young people's social gatherings being held at the school in the presence of the pupils. The Ian of the school shonld be to give each member of the household jnst as much of home life as possible, thus fitting them for the life that thegreat majority must follow when their schooldays have ended. DISCUSSION. [Dr. T. E BEEEN, Boperintendent Port Lewis Schml, Colomda] Education being the lever hv which the Government ia raisine. more or leas slo\vly, the India6 to the ~,laco%fA merican citizenahip. all propermeans shonld be ue6d as a Inlcrum to thiit end. The aim or the authorities is so to educate rho Indian that he can safeb be left alono vvilhont that consritnr au~erviaion now exercised, permittlug h i ~ dto be maptnr of his own destiny, and to expand as folly as his caparltlrs will allow, to individu:dixe him instead of tribaliziog him, and thus nrenare hlm for thnt oersontbl freodom of nctiun accorded the most i-m oraut foreibe; cast upon our sgores. How CANW E SECUREA BETTERU NIFIOATIOONF INDUSTRANIAD LAC ADEMIO FEATURES O r TEE INDIAN SOAOOU3? [Prof. 0. E BILKBLESS, Carlisle, Pa.] TheIndian school, lanned to lift in a single generation a people from the middle and lower stages of garbarism into civilization and citizenship, is planned along these broad lines of ,:sending the whole child to school" The old soh001 had use only for the intellect. The work of the schoolroom is a means to an end; and that end the training of men as workers good for something in community life and willing as workers to do faithful service. It is this that the Indian needn toenable him tostand Elllone. The great majority of people (and Indians are no exception) have not the mtel-lectusl interest dominant. The do have the so-called practical impulse and disposition, and the school and %e shop oniting to foster this, will send out a strong, useful character. It is with such nails that the wrrelatin and unifying of the shop and the aohoo~scounmt ost. &e hold of the school wilfbe more vital and prolonged because it has recognized the power of the shop as a preparation for hfe. Ideal industrial schools onght to do systematically in an intelligent and compe-tent way what the home, the shop, the factory, and the farm, disconnectedly do in a comparatively meager and haphazard way. The teachers in the schools usually organize and meet weekly to discuss and study every phase of real live modern education as related to their branch of work. The instrnctors in the shop should do the same. The teachers from the academic side in this study shonld be consta.nt1y rewehing out M the industrial and into the lsrger life of the world; more practsal, original, less dependent on books. The |