The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-25

AhSoS MuO bCC III 5utu u mourning
So I will no longer suffer my remorse TO
For the fast express is starting, roaring east
ward, and go.
tenn, Especially Ia the
County, be AEn.
proved.
The design of mental and moral Gull
ture is to enable man to lay hold of the
physical and moral forces around him.
and utilize them. The Creator when
he made the beast, put a coat on him
suited to his wants, but he simply fur
nishcd man with the materials, and
left him TO make a garment for him.
self. The Creator, also prepared the
food for the brute, suited to mis- nature
but not so with man. Then in winter
the brute is protected by a thickened
garment, q state of dormancy or tacil-
ity to seek a warmer climate, while II
Ia different with man he must thickcu
his own garment, build his house and
fill his crib. But to do this without
any knowledge of the forces in nature
or the right OF his fellow beings is q
very difficult task. Without a knowl-
edge OF these he literally gets his
bread by the "sweat of his face.'
What a vast distance there was be
tween the first man with a fleece o.
wool IN his hand and good coat
when he had neither wheel nor loom
or the tools or skill to make them
There was an equal distance between
the handful of wheat to be reproduced
ground and baked without farming i'm.
plements, mill or oven, and a loa
of good bread.
Man without knowledge is thu
most helpless of all the animal king
dom, for his Instincts are not so gooC
as are those of the brute. Hence tn,
necessity of practical knowledge; anC
that knowledge Is the most usefu
which will secure the greatest com
forts to the greatest number. The OBJ
ject OF mental culture is to increase IL
our minds the number of facts and the
power to use them the best advan
Lage for the race. While we do moi
desire to lessen the Importance of the
knowledge of letters, numbers ant
places, the principal things taught il
our country schools, we do feel tina
the children might be taught how T.
make home both attractive and com
Portable. 1t is true we have q Stat
Agricultural College, but it exerts nj
more influence over the nine hundre'
and ninety-nine thousandths part @
the children of this State than tn
Turkish war. The Agricultural Col
lege don't reach the masses, and wit
its present management, never viii
Multiplied thousands of our poo
children are living in filth and rags
Vegetables from year TO year, while "
boast of our Vegetable and fruit grow
ing State. Thousands of country pee
pie do not make garden becaus
they do not know how, and they hav
no idea they can have a VINEYARD an
orchard without msney and the aid {
their moro skilled neIghbors. Now
we would select about two acres {
ground near each country schoC
house, surround iC with Z good stem
wall and reduce It to the best possibl
state of fertility, then plant OF
about two-thlrds of 1t In small fruit
currents, gooseberries, raspberrie
straw berries, grapes and drawf frui
of various kinds, also few of the yer
best standard peaches and apple
The rest should be divided between
Vegetable and flower garden. tt
most useful and very best garden vel
tables should be cultivated. The n
maInder should be planted in fiower
and the smaller ornamental trees.
cultivate this garden 1 would emplC
a practical gardener that knew how
work and one that was not born tire
/ would put ten OF these schO
gardens In one school precinct. .
superintend these / would employ
practical hortIculturallst about fol
months In the year and 1 would hay
him visit these school gardens once
week during this period and devote
half q day In each. That half day
would have the teacher and all q
children spend in this garden, tn
they might learn how to cultivate eaC
tree, shrub, plant and flower in i
season. The productions of such
garden would furnish each family
the school district with seeds, flower
cuttings, buds and plants to supply 1
their gardens, Vineyards and orchard
And the best of it would be the DO
and girls would know how to plant Al
cultivate them. The productions
these gardens would richly pay q
gardeners and the only outlay aft
the gardens were fenced and fertiliz
would be the expences of the horticU
turalIst four months in the year divi
ed among the ten districts viii
would be q small amount. II the A
ricultural College could furnish the
horticulturalIsts 1t would then be
prectical use. This gardener cou
advise with parties OF the district
selecting the best location for {
garden, vineyard aud orchard. In Il
work he would soon have the cyl
pathies of these children, while ca
farm and nelghbOrheod would ris
with each other until our whole St.
wonld be paradise. OBSERVER.