The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-06-21

i graphic Illustration OF the meaning Of
the above wa given on the 18th inst, at
the twenty-ffth anniversary of the Phila-
delphia Home fer INDECENT and aged COL
ored persons. The enterprise started
twenty-five years since in a very humble
way ii q house on Front street with eleven
inmates. To-day the same society owns a
beautiful and commodious building, III
rounded by ample grounds, on Lancaster
avenue and 42d street. This structure is a
monument to the late Stephen Smith,
formerly q slave. who in freedom attained
wealth and devoted a good portion of it in
rearing a home for friendIess and needy
aged persons Of his race.
The anniversary exercises were Of a
specially interesting character, possessing
the novel feature Of being participated in
by both white and colored persons. Several
features combined TO effectnally disabuse
the common opinion, viz: the marked
mental disparity between the eolered race
and those Of q fairer skin. Rev. DIR. Cat
tell, ex-President of Lafayette College,
said that forty-fiYe years since. whilst pur-
suing his studies at Princeton, he came IN
contact with a remarkable character known
to all that neighborhood as Aunt Betsy
Stockton. She was born ia slavery and
yet thus handicapped managed to acquire
the rndiments of an English education,
and subsequently, in freedom, in the face
Of terrible odds. continued TO study sui :
feiently to enable her TO be at the head of
a school for colored youths, among whom
DR.. Castell, then a student. formed a
Latin class, Their quick witted principal
saw that with tho acquisition of Latin
came a partial losing Of her hold upon the
boys, they feeling that they possessed
something Of which Aunt Betsy was ignor-
ant. This stimulated her to set about
studying the language for herself, which,
considering that she was Ga years of age,
with every moment occupied, was no slight
undertaking. On a certain occasion, young
CattelI falling To put in an appearance,
Aunt Betsy called the boys up and, to their
great amazement, put them through their
Latin drill, the only difference being, as the
boys expressed it, that their new teacher
was much more severe than their former
one.
4 poem written for the occasion by Mrs.
Frances w. Harper, National supt. w. g.
IT. Z. work among the eolored, was read
by the same lady. Miss Fannie Ceppin,
principal OF a school for boys and girls I'M
der auspices of members of the Society Of
Friends. delivered a most eloquent and
forcible address. The speaker was borr
in slavery, and this, together with hel
natural gifts and graees, made her a most
interesting talker. Miss Coppin was
delegate to the great missionary eonven-
ton held in London last summer and prov
cd To be one OF the most attractive features
Of tine international gathering. She re
ceived marked attention from not only
prominent doctors Of divinity, but alsc
from members of the nobility, calculated
to turn q head lass strong than Miss Cop
pins.
AS we listened To the clear, forcible ut
teranees of this lady, together with ths
coiored men who represented various re
iigions and phiianthropic bodies, We 70
| ceived q most emphatic object lesson con
corning the fact that as Jasper says s.fhs
world do move, a that the last twenty