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Sandy Hook, Conn,

Rev George T. Linsley, Newtown, Conn.,
Dear sir: Your reply to my communication OF
the 18th in regard to the High school matter
at hand and contents noted. l need hardly
say am glad to learn OF the favorable recep-
ton of the High school plan by yourself and
trustees.
only wish you could see your way clear to
q per capita cost of $25 annually; still, as you
observed, "this is matter of detail" and
hence capable OF reimbursement yet. 1 shall
bring your communication before the board
of school visitors at its forthcoming meeting
September 49, and shall take great pleasure
in recommending to the board this project for
securing High school advantages tree TO the
pupils of the town passing the required exam
nation; and, also, as stated in a former COM
munication, work to secure its favorable re-
ception by the town.-[T.J j. CoRBETT.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1892-09-23

Coughing Leads to Consumption.
Kemp's Balsam stops the cough at
once. 'sss
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DROKE INTO MY ENCLOSURE-A red Cow.
ID Owner may have the same by proving pro
perry and paying charges. JOHN HWHEEL.
Err, Easton. .r.-.
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GLOVER FARM CREAMERY BUTTERFLY
= pound prints, neatly wrapped in waxed
paper. Only one grade, and that the best on
the market For sale by WILLIAM John
SON, Newtown.
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INOR SALE-House, Barn and two acres of
l. Land near Botstord depot. Inquire OF
DANIEL DAVIS, Easton. P.O.Steyney Depot.
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ing in the proximity Of the Colored Normal
and Mechanical Institute to the town.
The modern architecture of these build.
ings make no stronger contrast to the old
mansions than do the changed relations
of the negro that was planned by the eman-
cipation and is being carried out by q
colored man, in freeing themselves from
ignorance and incompetency. The old plan
tation, melodies still remind one of the
chapel. on the hill from 500 voices of not
only freemen and women but intelligent
and educated colored people.
Inc change is still further emphasized
by the relations existing between the
school and the town. The students and
colored race, but they are respected for
what Hley are doing. Captain Wright is
one OF the wealthieSt md most intlue,l-
tIal white men in the county. He is of
an OLD family, inherited lands and now
owns most of the stock in the narrow
with the Alobama Western road. T was
riding over this road with Captain Wright
few days ago and asked about the
colored institute at his town. He spoke of
with as much pride. as he could had it
been Il school with none but sons of the
Sir, Professor Washington is a remarkable
man. lie has done a remarkable work
here III this county. He has done more to
settle the negro question than any other
one man in the South. He is making the
colored boys and girls useful men and wo-
men. When he came here ten years ago
the white people We're opposed to the loca-
ton of the school in our midst. We did
not like the negroes and feared such an
experiment would annONaus whether it was
so meant or not. But Mr.. Washington
has done wonders. The school is now the
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past. It is teaching the white man that
the negro is his equal when it comes to
skilled labor II is striking ut the old and
book and the white men who ten years ago
wanted t" know why that ''nisser' had
come to Tuskegee to open II school for mig
gers, to-day lift their hats to professor
Washington, and want to know if he
would like to buy this. or what he will take
for that. 1t is the change that first makes
its appearance III the cOinting-roOm with
men of business everywhere. A man may
think himself the intellectual superior Of
another until that other man succeeds where
he fails. He an not we'll do so afterw;rl
and retain Ills self-respect.
Before the war there was not more
nristocratic community in the State of Ala
bamu than Tusk"gee. 1t was the home of
the rich planters, who had their mansions
here Oh the high, rolling ground and their
plantations in the rich lowlinds which made
the TallapOOsI Valley one of the greatest
cOttOn-;.rDWing sections in the South. II
was only forty miles from Montgomery,
''the cradle OF the COnfederacy." Its wide
streets shaded with great trees still speak
of its pmst aristocratic beauty. Its grand
old mansions. with their great galleried
purcll,,. amt impressive LUrili, il.;ii Coiuilu.
1t w:ls the home of wealth. reiinemen,
and ;.riSo"rlcy. But much of t:.at wealth
took wings with the emancipation OF
slavery. and aristocracy could not icns
exist without wealth. 1t is now only an
interesting relic of antebelum grandeur
But some of the descendants of this past
still have their homes and their lands, and
those lands are occupied by colored PEG.
be but. not slaves. The new life is strik'
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n Z: Church, Baltimore; was educated at
Philadelphia and is the only woman who
holds a certificate from the medical board
o. Of Alabama. In that examination She
stond so high that the board remarked the
EXCELLENCE Of the papers handed in, but
they dil not know the name Of the appli-
CAM cant Neither did they know whether it
tore tore surprised to find that their commcnda-
TO, a colored woman. But they congra u
late nl;n he IT, on passing the most rigorous
United States. as they claim that standing
Tor their work. When Dr. Dillon ca1 &c
TO the Tuskcgce Institute she studied the
girl students and when she thought slie
1ound material for {! trained nurse she in
vited that girl into her class. She sought
natural fitness for the work and to tlis
she is adding the necessary instruction and
training to make first-class nurses. The
girls show great enthusiasm in their new
work, and DR., Dillon believes she las
colored girls but one that will help them
to break down the prejudices against their
race. II the. co!orcd girls can, as nurses.
show to white women their skill in the
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
The Wonderful Afro American School
at Tuskegee, Alabama.
One Of tho Practical Ways of Settling tho
So-called "Race Problem SUCCESSFULLY
Carried out by Afro Americans In
tho Heart OF the Sunny South.

Euskegee. Ala, Feb. o7-special Csk
respondence.-What are the colored PEG.
pie doing for themselves in the South I?
Many Northern people ask this question
every year and they hear different an.
swers to the question. but these do not
all encourage. They hear only of what
is being done for the colored people by
good missionaries. came to the ''Black
Belt of Alabama Il few days ago with
that impression. I had heard only of that
kind Of work and of the colored politi-
cinns. But found that there was an
other and more hopeful work here. In
telling the story of that work I can an
swer the question, ''What are the colored
people doing for themselves" just in
the suburbs Of an old time aristocratic
Southern town there is /. group of q
dozen buildings. large and small, brick
ana frame, covering the highest ground in
Macon County. These buildings are the
most conspicuous in the landscape. They
dwarf the grand old houses of the plunt.
ers. which still stand us monuments to
past that was looked upon as glorions.
'Ehey are the most modern in archity
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only places where liquor IS sold. we never
hear of their drinking. So far as we can
judge them from the town, they are model
students. We would not know there was IL
it has brought to the town, aud from seeing
wcll-dreSsed and gentlenanly colorcd boys
going to and from the station and the
school, Professor Washington is held in
high esteem by the white people here, be
cause he has shown that he merits it. If
Northern people want to help the negro
they can do it in no better way than by
helping this man Washington and his
school,
Other white men here and in Montgomery
spoke in the same way of the school.
Mr.. Glass, the business manager of the
Montgomery Advertiser, is a Southern gen
tlenan, and has some of the old prejutlices
that belong to that class. He is an e,lvl,
Gated and very cultured man, 4 stanch
Democrat believes i'll white supremacy, ex-
cuSeS the suppression of the colOreu vote.
and all that, but he believes in Professor
the highest praise of the school at Tuske-
gee. and said that the columns of his paper
were always open to Professor Washington
because he wanted to help on such work
Wherever | have met men, either white or
cOlored, who knew of this school, and it is
known all over this part of Alabama, they
have spoken in praise of the work it is do
ing. All believe that it is opening the only
way for settlement of the old prejudices be-
tween the two races.
It is in line with the work in the North
in this age where skilled labor is recog-
nized as the great lever that moves the
world. 1t is teaching not only the blacks
but the whites that the man who can do
something is the man who has some in
huence. Skill and energy are becoming
recognized in the South as we'll as in the
North. and the young men of the white
race who have not learned this lesson be-
fore are beginning to understand it, rs
they see the young colored mechanics tax
ing their places in the shops. the educated
and trained farmer dropping cotton for a
rotation OF crops. and all holding up their
heads as men of more importance in bust
ness than in uolitics..
Who is this man Washington and what
is his work?
Booker r. Washington was a poor negro
boy from West Virginia who entered
Hampton Institute about 1872. He is not
fnll-blooded negro. He is almost as fair
as the white men of the South but he In,
me me features of his race. He went tt
rrl,'lhpton without money and WithOu
friends. But he wanted an education anl
was determined to have it. He worked hi:
wa! through the course at Hampton, grad
uatlng IN 1915. General Armstrong recog
llzed the capabilities of this young MAJ
unu placed INN in charge of the Indian bows
uC that school. He had been there severn
years when the Alabama Legislature II
uool passed a bill appropriating $1,000 :
year 70 pay the salaries of teachers N ;
normal scnool to be located at Tuskeset
81 ~ ti.e framing OF co.ored teachers 'i'h.
Hhperihtendent ct Education for Alabamu
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brick known as Alabama Hall for the girls
and Armstrong Hall forsthe boys. These
are three and four stories. All the work
was done by those at thesSchOOl.
There are now a dozen or more buildings
on the grounds, which aTe laid out taste
fully for ornament:,tion. All the buildings
are. however. crowded. 50 great is the de.
maml for admission. Each room has four
and five inmates, where there should be but
two. The shops are full of busy yo:ng
people, and the teachers with their classes
are in both shops and school-rooms. The
boys are instructed in farming, brick-malS
ing. brick masonry, plastering, blacksmith.
ing, whcelwlighting carpentry, paint
timing. printing, and shoe-lnaking: The
girls are instructed i'll sewing, laundry work.
cooking. ma ttress- making,sand nursing.
Mr. Washington's nlottois "elucate head
hand. and heart" The Industrial work is
carried on in connection with a four years
course of mental training designed to give
u thorough English education. In all the
industrial work these objects are kept in
view:
l. To teach the dignity Of labor.
= 10 teach the students how to work.
giving them Il trade when best. s~=s@5ss
s: 10 enable students to pay portion Of
their expenses Of board, books, etc., in
labor.
In teaching these trades they are practical
'NAAO AAA~'AAS SoAAAS|AAno AS"uJ AVA VIC Ad1hcCs
In fact, Mr.. Washington has made his
school great work-house where the peo-
pie OF the country and the town come to
purchase many things. In the blacksmith
ing shop L found young men at work iron
Ing wagons and buggies which had been
made over in the wagon shop. One boy
had just finished wagon and another
ironed it. A third painted it, and then it
was sent to Tuskegee for sale. The brick
yard had made brick not only for the school
buildings, but for many of the white people
III the town., who found them the best brick
they could buy: A white man started
hrl:k-ylrd IN Tuskegee few years ago,
but failed because he could not compete
with the boys at the school,
In the saw-mill were a dozen men getting
ont lumber for an order in town. In the
wagon-shop another boy had Just COM
pletcd the wood work for buggy and was
experimenting the ironing of it in the
blacksmith shop. The carpenters were
building new houses, and last year they
made the furniture for one of the white
churches in Trskegee. The printing Office
does AL the job work for the town, from
b*nN checks to order books. and for a time
the boys did the work of printing bour-
Lon DcnIocralic paper edited in Tuskegee.
The editor, IN defending this departure,
wrote an editorial saying that it was the
best work and the cheapest. and ne pro-
posed to 2atronize the school printers.
whether it agreed with Democratic princi-
pies or not. The harness shop was getting
out m order of a lot of farm harness fl
O. t1rm III Tuskegee, the shoe shop making
shoes for the school, and the tin shop MAX
ny many cooking utensils for store in
town.
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clseS in the chapel, and has every hour
| Of the day full of work 'AouA

clses in the chapel, and has every. hour
or the day full of work. :.
1t has never been found necessary to dis
miss pupil from this school on account
ot immortality. The boys and girls whose
average age is Is, are allowed the great
esC llDerty OF association and placed ON
their honor but they are so closely asso-
9 Giated with the teachers in all their schoo.
nIe that there is a constant, watchful eve
over them without the suggestion that it is
necessary. - ~
Professor Washington is not seeking TO
change the colored man. but develop him
ne mas no desire to make him like Tho
White man. but to give him the white man =
education and training. He is leading The
negro out ct his superstition, his depend
enc: ence: and his happy -go-lucly way OF )iv-
uSS from hand to mouth. and is giving him
y healthy religion without denominationai
ISM making him independent and teach
ing MN TO be energetic and take care of
the future =
One of the old associations of the PLAN
tation life is the negroes love for music
and his old melodies. These melodies and
this love for them Washington encoura ges
his people to preserve. They are historic,
and his teucller in music has culled the
written music for them, and the school
sing them With as much soul as ever did
the slaves Oh the plantations. Their love
for music is appealed to and used in every
way to encourage them in their work.
Then chapel exercises generally consist Of
morning. noon. and night to sing They
chant in a sweet old plantation melody
the blessing at table when they gather in
the dinning-room for breakfast. dinner. or
supper. They have band and an orches~
ira, and there is sweet music at Tuskegee
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44O.64 have been paid by students in the
form of labor. The State of Alabama has
IN this ten years given $4,000 to the
school, Last year the financial statement
OF the treasurer showed that donations had
been received amounting to $34 ,12l 81; pay.
ment in cash by students, $7,4SG.33: pay.
ment in labor, SD 800 from the State
$1,000; The school has i'll all LILO acres
OF land valued ut $4,000, absolutely free
from encumbrlnce.
IRON the first the teachers have been
negroes. No white man or woman has la,l
anything to do with the management of the
school. Several white men are on the
board of trustees, but their work is adj
visory and to show to white contributors
how the school is managed 1t is wholly a
negro enterprise. There are thirty teachers
IN all the departments, including the indus
trial work. and while some of them would
pass for white people in the North, they
arc all 'colored people," and are loyal to
their race, working for the uplifting of those
who are still in ignorance.
The Rev DR.. 3. J. Penney is a. graduate
Of Fisk University and Andover Seminary.
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was found necessary to I zach the coloreG
boys, reared in slovenly ways, habits of
neatness and cleanliness. Many of these
boys come to Tuskegee without any idea
of the use Of a tooth brush or bath tub
lie has transformed them into young men
as neat and clean, if not as well dressed,
as could be found in fashionable white cor
leges.
Mr.. Washington has his own idea as to
Row the race problem is to be solved ana
ne IS trying to solve it that way. He said:
These race problems will be solved in
proportion as the black man gets hold OF
Something that the white man wants o.
respects, and we must confess that this
as not very different from human nature
'ne world over: Usually when two persons
associate. together and the one is careful
/" accord to the other all his just rights II
's because one has something that the
other wants or the one is obligated to the
ether. 1t is either money, a social posi-
ton, or perhaps a daughter or something
that one wants to get from the Other.
Often one Of the surest and quickest ways
to reach a mans heart is through his
rocket or his eyes on something tangible: >
Working, along this line this man is COM
pel!ing the white people to spell the naln.
VI his people with one 'g" instead OF
Two, and with a capital n. He is making
the negro self-respecting and independent,
and these qualities are making him re-
While Tuskegee is a child of Hamilton
Institute, in Virginia. it realizes more what
:.E,y be done in this work than does even,
Hampton, because it is peculiarly, a colnretl
school, with tc;chers and pupils all Of the
same race Or. Wright, of the American
Missionary Association. regards it as tic
most remarkable and the most Ii ,pcful
work done in the cause of the Negro. Miss
Ludlow, one of the teachers at hampton
is loyal to her own school but she is loud
III her praises Of WashiIgton's work Miss
Susan Van Ktnsselaer, Of New York, q
wealthy young woman who is devoimg her
life to charitable work. was here the other
day and expressed her surprise at the work
at Iuskegee. She bad been in the school
at Hampton, in other schools for Indians
and colored people. She had been in the
work in trying 10 lift humanity out of the
slums of New York. but at Tuskegee she
found one Of the most hopeful movements
conducted a negro that she had found
anywhere under the direction of whites.
Senator Morgan. Of Alabama. said in the
United States Senate about year ago:
The Normal. Mechanical and Agricultural
School, at Tuskesee. Macon County Ala.
is certainly one Of the most prosperous of
all the coorrd institutions, in the South
and ! think it has done more good for the
youthful cOlored ponulation in that State
| that can be claimed by almost any other
State in the South. Professor Washing:
ton certainly represents his lame to the
negro race in this land Of Washington.
L. w. B.
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ture that are to be found in the whole
county. They are known as the TuSke-
gee Normal School for colore1 people,
find every one of them was designed by
talOred skill and built by colored labor.
Colored men made the drawings: colored
men made the working plans; colored men
cut the timber and sawed the lumber
colored men made the brick: colorel men
laid these brick, fashioned the timbers
and colored men alone represented in
the construction Of these most modern
buildings in the Black Belt. But the
work OF a colored creation does not stop
there. Grouped around among these
school buildings and cottages are shops
where colorcd boys are making wagons
to sell to the white merchants of Tusiie-
gee: harness. buggies. house. Office, and
church furniture for white people to buy;
boots and shoes, clothing. bed mattress
es. and in fact carrying on in II small
way almost every industry known to the
South These colorc,l boys and girls are
not learning to handle tools in toy Shops
to waste material III becoming familiar
with them. They are making their own
tools i'll many instances. and in every
school shop they are turning out goods
ready for the market which the whites are
glad to buy and acknowledge that they
do so because they can not do better else
where.
The colorcd people here are teaching the
healthicst lesson that has ever been taught
i'll the South. 1t is an object lesson of the
fruits of freedom. 1t is the best and strong
est Lever to overturn old prejudces and
make both whites and blacks realize that
the future for the negro is not simply IL
silver lining Of hope to the cloud Of the
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Wrote to General Armstrong at Hampton
requesting him to recommend fit person
Ior principal of the school. The General
recommended young Washington, who was
appointed s He came to Tuskegee at once
ana found that he had but $1,000 for tia
work he was expected to do in the grcot
o o,ack pet oelt, where there We're few teachers
was nothing appropriated for school bn;ld.
n1s or furniture. These the colored peo-
PIE must 1lsa provide, and at that time they
M Nspehde enc on the white people of the
mere was only one week remaining Of
the tn time in which they could take adj
" noG OF the act appropriatiHg this
$1,000 from State funds. But t6is man
N who 81: had worked his own way through
E v.a,'t course was not discouraged He
week closed he had thirty teachers en-.
rolled as students, and one of the little
colorcd churches, itself merely Il shanty
o., 11ened its doors to the new enterprise
There began the Tuskegee Normal School
on July 4. 1881. 1t won the confidence
OF the colored people at once and Other