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state of shameless debaucliery, and thus very often return in a 

 diseased state to their homes. 



The condition of these people is in no sense bettered by en- 

 deavoring to teach them moral maxims or religious dogma. They 

 do not appreciate the truth of the former, nor can they in their 

 low mental state rightly understand the latter. To endeavor to 

 do so is merely to imitate the procedure of the Indian shaman 

 over the dying. If, on the contrary, you speak to them of means 

 of improving their material condition, or deplore with them the 

 rapid diminution of their tribe, the more thoughtful and mature 

 listen with the greatest respect and attention. The problem is, 

 fundamentally, an industrial one, and is to be attacked, if success- 

 fully, from that side. They are naturally industrious enough, 

 and capable, though not so persistently laborious as the whites, 

 and less easy to control than the Chinese. They obtain a certain 

 amount of precarious employment in connection with the can- 

 neries and other nascent industries of the northern coast, but have 

 not generally the offer of any permanent remunerative work. 



It is thus primarily essential to establish industries among 

 them which will remove the temptation now felt to drift to the 

 larger settlements and towns. Improvement in mental and moral 

 tone will then naturally follow. 



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LINES OF PROGRESS IN AGRICULTURE. 



By De. manly MILES. 



THE recent progress made in the study of social and political 

 science, in which the principles of evolution have played an 

 important part, must aid us in gaining a better knowledge of the 

 laws of industrial development, and more consistent views of the 

 real objects and available methods of industrial education. 



The recognition of the fact that in the social and industrial 

 progress of peoples, as well as in the relations of natural phe- 

 nomena, there are laws of growth and development, of universal 

 application, under which the modifying influences of surrounding 

 conditions are brought in harmony in determining results, lias 

 widened our methods of study and research, and thrown a light 

 on the history of the world's progress that enables as to trace 

 the relations of cause and effect in many cases that had before 

 been involved in obscurity. 



In agriculture there is pressing need of the application of prin- 

 ciples and methods that have aided in the development of other 

 industries, to enable the farmer to devise the best possible system 

 for the profitable practice of his art under the world-wide com- 



