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"kept" for three months in the winter, with a 

 teacher paid $25 a month. There was talk of 

 discontinuing it altogether as a needless ex- 

 pense, for on some days only two or three 

 pupils would show up. 



What do you suppose the farmers are dis- 

 cussing in the new Improvement Club up 

 north? Good roads, of course, and ways and 

 means for doing some necessary things; but 

 just now the central idea is vocational training 

 in the country schools! The subject is being 

 discussed, too, not merely fooled with. Be- 

 fore we know it these schools will be reorgan- 

 ized for real service. 



Besides these more pretentious undertakings 

 there are many neighborhood clubs scattered 

 round, some of them not formally organized 

 but meeting in the farmers' homes in the even- 

 ings or on a Sunday afternoon. The truth of 

 it is that sentiment for better conditions is sort 

 of seething around Fayetteville. 



What has brought the change to pass? The 

 weight of opinion of the newcomers? Well, 

 that has helped, of course. Some of these new- 

 comers have brought with them a lot of fresh, 

 vigorous ideas and an unbounded enthusiasm. 

 It's probably true that if the old life hadn't 



