Morning journal and courier., 1893-03-21

the children to the parents New ideas of cooking are given them. Very interesting is the daily report when students are ones,
 tioned as to what they have done at home | the previous day for their parents bv wav of helping them in their work. The pso- pie are very black down here; they could hardly be more African if the parents had come over in the slave chip. There ia s great deal of liquor drinking done here; tobacco Is very universally used; nearly all the school girls use snuff as an antidote to dyspepsis. The state of mo- rality Is dreadful, and decent living in one. room cabins is impossible.
 In this region have seen more of the one-room cabin life than anywhere in the south; 1t is the lowest stage of Afro-Amer- lean life in the country. At the first op- portunity the people will break up such 6 condition of things. Mir. Washington's plan, already begun, is to buy a number of farms at low prices, cut them up into small farms, erect @ decent two or three roomed cottage on each lot, and sell it to these people for a trifie enough over actual cost to cover all expenses. At Calhoun farm land can bs bought for about ten dollars an acre; here money can do good; should some moneyed friend of the negro in the north wish to give this people chance. The negro Is ambi- tious to buy land, and will make great sac riice to get it. His ideal farm is s three mule farm of eighty acres. The best thing for him Is two-mule farm of forty acres, with family of five occupying one, two or three roomed cottage. The needed thing here is schools. The idea thst Miss Dillingham; and Miss Thorn will plant among these people by teaching their children how to farm, about food crops, about nestness and saving. about temper ancs and thrift, and especially about clean Illness, will take deep root among those many hundred children, and finally work out in their lives and result in @ much bet ter order of things. The immortality and low life which are the results of living in one room cabins make the prospect rather hopeless.
 The only chance for the Calhoun people Is to get lots for two hundred and fifty. dollars, paying eight per cent interest on unpaid balances and 10 forfeit the entire amount If payments are not made on time There Is no chance for them to get 6 mod erste-sized farm on comfortable terms; they are willing to pay and do pay when there is chsncs to buy to advantage. Most are compelled to psy three dollars an acre rent per year. These people gre earn est, conscientious and reliable sbout pay ing up what they owe on their farms, and nO uouut VIII Dr Ialt0Iul m pSNiDE up for land sold to them on time. The lands around here are not we'll surveyed. Very few who rent land know how much they are oultivstipg. As a rule they go blind, paying from two dollars and & half to five dollars an acre annual rent, and living from hand to mouth constantly. They are in the habit of raising cotton only, and are just beginning to see the advantage of raising their own food, corn and varied crops. When they have learned this les son there will be 6 great change in the out look. Cotton is the cash crop. They plant cotton early and gather in October, and 1t brings them all the cash they get. At Calhoun the superintendent of farming ia graduate of Hampton, 8 colored man who is doing admirable work, training boys in farming. When he teaches them how to do thing he teaches them why they do 1t. Of the two hundred snd if ty pupils, their ages run from five to twenty-five yesrs. They walk about three miles to school daily and do not com plain. They pay the twenty-five cents per month tuition promptly ard seem glad of the chance.