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Show The State Fair THE Utah State Fair will open in a few days and it is said that the managers are making preparations to make this year's fair more interesting inter-esting than any previous one has been. We are not in a position to know what is being proposed beyond the usual display with some amusements attached. We hope there will be some racing, for if the horse is passing only the very best colts should be raised, and only the thoroughbred gives character to a nation's horses. The very best trotter and the very best draft horse must have at least a strata of the thoroughbred In him. By the way the real thoroughbred is a lineal descendant descend-ant of that strain of horses that has been bred in central Asia and Arabia ever since Job's war-horse war-horse "swallowed the the ground with fierceness and rage, that said among the trumpets, 'Ha, ha,' that goeth out to meet the armed men and mock-eth mock-eth at fear and is not affrighted; and smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting." We say this because so few men know what a real thoroughbred horse is. Wo hope there will be an exhibition of how to test milk that farmers may be able to distinguish disting-uish between the cows that are paying them a profit and those that are simply eating their heads off and returning less than the cost of their keeping. keep-ing. We hope that by the exhibits the fruit-raisers can be made to see the difference between a fruit tree that is worthless and one that pays a profit. We have a university such as it is and a real agricultural college. The pe'ople will come from all parts of the state. Cannot the fair management manage-ment arrange to have the proiessors In these schools give daily or nightly lectures on the various var-ious elements of agriculture and mechanics? Not profound essays, but heart-to-heart folks that would reach and interest the people? And could not these educators at the same time give hints of what studies boys and girls and young ladies and gentlemen could pursue to bring to themselves the best preparation for a life work according to their individual tastes am inclinations. For instance, if a poor boy hates classical studies, but with a jack-knife and shingle can build and have running, in twenty minutes a wa- ' ter-wheel in an irrigation ditch, is it not clear that for him to study Latin and Greek and belle lettres is a waste of time, that he should make mechanics and the Btudies necessary to perfect him in mechanical pursuits his hobby If a girl hates mathematics but can sing like a forest filled with mocking birds, should she not be permitted to drop figures after she has learned how to keep household accounts and pursue music? If a boy can learn a foreign language readily and is poor in purse, should he not be taught Spanish, then how to analyze soils, and how to conduct a farm, so that when grown he can go to Spanish-America, be a blessing there and earn for himself a fortune and great name? Should not the necessity of educating the hands and the eyes as well as the brain be impressed im-pressed on all students? We can imagine how a state fair could bo made of absorbing interest and do a vast amount ffi of good. We sincerely hope that the managers are work- , ing along all the lines of the industries; agriculture, agricul-ture, mining, mechanics, horticulture, stock-raising, practical education of the people so that when a young man or woman leaves school, he or she will be fitted to make an honest, honorable living; the boy able to manage a business, the girl fitted to manage a homo with grace, and how to direct a home in a way to be a blessing to husband and children. |