especially those that relate to
the care and improvement of homes.

As evidence that this industrial work is pushed forward, we may
mention that in our most recently established school in the South,
that at Enfield, N. C., the farm of more than a thousand acres of land
(the gift of a generous Christian lady of Brooklyn, N. Y.), a large
portion of which is under cultivation, gives ample employment to the
student. Cotton, corn, potatoes, and the products of the field, the
garden and the orchard are cultivated, while in the shops the boys are
taught in blacksmithing and in carpentry, and the girls in the various
kinds of domestic work, sewing, cooking and housework.

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BOTH ARE RIGHT.

Mr. Booker T. Washington has written two very able articles in _The
Independent_, setting forth the supreme importance of industrial
training and work among the colored people of the South. On the other
hand, Dr. T. J. Morgan, Secretary of the Baptist Home Missionary
Society, has published in the same paper a carefully prepared article,
emphasizing the absolute necessity of the higher education of the
leaders of that people. Both these writers are correct. No people can
rise unless they have the guidance and inspiration of highly educated
ministers, teachers, thinkers and writers, and no people can rise if
its masses are idle and unthrifty. The American Missionary Association
aims, in its great work, to give due and impartial importance to both
aspects of this great problem.

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THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES.

A peculiar history is that of the five civilized tribes of Indians. It
was supposed for a time that they had given the brightest example of
the success of the Indian on his reservation. These tribes had forms
of government modeled after that of the States. They had governors,
legislators, and judges, schools and churches. Many of the members
were highly educated. But the outcome has been a failure. The laws are
inadequately administered, and crime has been rampant and unpunished.
But now the general Government has taken the one decisive and initial
step in the matter by directing that the United States courts should
have civil and criminal jurisdiction over all cases arising in the
Indian Territory, irrespective of race. Thus the wedge has entered,
and the reservation system and the dream of Indian autonomy--an empire
within an empire--will happily soo