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Show Indian affairs, who has just returned from a 20,000 mile tour of ' inspection oi Indian reservations in twelve states. "The system of education in the Indian schools" said Mr. Ab-1 Ab-1 bott, "is at least 25 years in advance of the preset public school system in Industrial training. The boys are taught farming and the related industrial arts; the girls domestic science." The amount of land tilled by the Indians ha3 increased greatly during the last yeir and is expected to increase 100 per cent during dur-ing the enduing year, attributable largely to a better gTade of practical prac-tical farmers employed to teach the Indians. SELF-SUPPORTING INDIANS. Great progress generally is being shown by the American Indian . toward gaining a footing with the whites in the matter of civilization, civiliza-tion, according to Assistant Commissioner Abbott of the bureau of |