Fargo, North Dakota, 310 Farmer, American, education of the, 305 Government help for the, 305 qualities of the, 128, 306, 466 Farmers, aid to, scientific, 641 standard of living of, 467 wage-workers and, 466-467 welfare of, important, 641 Farm life and rural free-delivery, 676 plants and cereals, new, 641 products, 303-304 in commerce, 557 Farm-owners, prosperity of, 608 Farming, advances in, 127 as an applied science, 128 lands in Alaska, 677 Farms, wealth invested in, 467 Farragut, David G., Admiral, 37, 203, 223, 230, 465 Federal Courts and anarchists, 535 Government, 141 grand jury, New York, 660 interference, instance of, 416 Library, 598 office-holders, 515-517 service departments, 3 service, high standard of, 518 Federal Salt Company, case against, 284 Federation and combination, era of, 652 Federation of Labor, American, 521 Federations of capital and labor, 618 Federations, reason for, 618 Fellowship, human, 355 Fighting and talking, 269 edge of Americans, 487 ship, use of a, 672 Filipino insurrectos, 571 ladrones, 571 insurrection condemned, 318 officials in Philippines, 95 Filipinos, advances among the, 96 beneficent government of, 96 Constitutional rights for, 207 co-operation of, 629 cruel wrong to the, 312 disadvantages to, some, 569 duty to the, our, 312 insurrection of the, 217 legislation favorable to, 315 measures used with, 571 officials among the, 314 prosperity of the, 218 rights of, 627 self-government for, 207 training of the, 679 treatment of, 60-62 unfit for independence, 204 war methods of the, 62 welfare of the, 314 Financial integrity preserved, 236 laws, suggestions on, 617 policy of Cuba, 646 situation, needs of, 655 system, reconstruction of, 617 Finland, 677 Fire claims, Hawaiian, 623 protection in forest reserves, 560 Fish and Fisheries, Commission of, 424, 639 Fish, Hamilton, Secretary, 705 Fisheries Commission, Alaskan, 678 Fisheries of Alaska, 424, 677 Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 137 Flag, American, 21, 22, 36, 37, 42, 49, 59, 93, 94, 167, 205, 222, 230, 454, 464, 488, 495, 571, 572, 577, 588, 591 duties to the, 22 Flanders, Republic of, 471 Floods, prevention of, 251 Fools, virtuous, harmful, 290 Forage crops, new, introducing, 641 Foreigners and the patent laws, 684 Foreign nations, our trade with, 552 powers, friendship of, 270 Forest policy, United States, 249, 256 Forest preservation and land-reclamation, 683 duty of, 390 importance of, 441 need of, 327 object of, 387 scientific, 636 Forest problem, the, 251 Forest protection in Alaska, 638 not an end in itself, 558 wise policy of, 558