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 THE SCIEXTIFIC MOSTULY

��anxious to get their sons out of danger, are wont to urge them to a school at Beroa College and elsewhere.

Though in some sections enthusiasm for education is becoming in others there is great apathy, because of lack of interest on the of the people, lack of practical teaching, illiterate teachers, po poor roads and political interference in school affairs. In some dii it is still thought by the school trustee that " the lickenest teacher : the knowinest jounguns." Changing conditions are indicated incident in which two teachers appeared in the same school room determined to become the sole teacher. The following among the was about equally divided at first, but presently they moved away the teacher using the "A, B, C" method and grouped themselves the more progressive instructor who was following the sentence m The broad effect is being made to toach the people how to work ai according io modern ideas, and yet lo retain the desirable traits o own civilization. This is a delicate tiij^k, involving much mori merely academic training.

Eeligion is undergoing transition slowly. Formerly if a spcal not shout and gesticulate he might he tornicd a good speakor bu good preacher. The early attitude towards the settlement workt indicated in a mountain sermon in which the congregation was "beware of the fetched on women who come in here wearin, watches, and their shirt fronts stnu-lied so slick that a fly would and bust out his brains." Rut, a year later, the mountaineer sa since the.=e women were adniiuistcviug to the needy under condit harsh that even the mountain people would not venture out, "la how they are welcome to sfny in (he mountains as long as I live, mountain patriarch, who has given hi:; farm and essentially his

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