Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-21

we be prepared for the exercise of these
privileges.
The opportunity to earn a dollar in a
factory, just now, is worth infinitely
more than the opportunity to spend
dollar in an opera house.
OF this address Gov. Greenhalge said, on
Massachusetts, day, at Atlanta, Nov. Is:
Upon the most urgent problems of our
day word of power and light has been
spoken by one of those most interested
Prof. Booker T. Washington. 1t is words
of wisdom like his, which give life to
nations
We are at the approach tn the Negro
building, erected entirely by ncgroes
their handiwork alone forming the ex-
bibiis. We are told, the building was
paid for by the EXPEDITION Company, and
the exhibitors allowed free space, Others
being charged one dollar per foot for
space.
Standing before the entrance, we observe
the beautiful main front with its large
windows and four corner paviliops, a
large central tower rising seventy feet
from whose roof floats the companion to
the half dozen proud flags on the smaller
towers. We have been told SO often by
voice and printed ASSERTION that woman
must talk, we shrank from being out of
fashion, so we look about us for the
second party to the talking match. At
our Immediate left is a bright faced
woman whom we soon know as Mrs.
Rosa NJ. Bass, a graduate of Atlanta
University, some twelve years ago, and Of
as graceful and dignified bearing as any
lady we shall meet on our rounds in any
building. We do not remember that it
saws in the commandment Thou shalt
not coyet thy colored sisters store Of
pickles. canned berries and fruits. real
southern beauties Of varieties we have
never seen, and SO cannot tell what might
have happened, had she not expressed her
wish to call at our hotel and leave some
of the odd looking gourds which attracted
our attention, and an assortment of cot
ton seeds and the cotton hollis in three
stages. before the bursting, looking like
great green plums, afterward showing
their treasures hiding away in their cell
like houses, and later a bunch of snowy
bloom, Il pretty thing for a mantel vase,
the three or four parts some times falling
down six or seven inches.
We had to go South to take in the fact
a matter of certain season, but the
ripened product is gathered whenever it
is matured, the blossom and buds in
various stages being often found on the
same stalk.
Mrs Bass tells us that after her gradua-
ton she taught for time, and now ia
her own homo she is laborlng hard to do.
such good work in the picking and can
ming line that she may find ready sale
for anything she puts upon the market
Our interesting friend Is not an cxcep-
ton in this building. Mrs. DeLamotta
in charge of the dainty little room with
its snowy bed and pretty furnishings.
wherein, with the various bandages and
appurtepances of the sick room is illus
trated the nurse training department of
Spelman Seminary, is a graduate of that
institution, entering it after her marriage
and now doing successful missionary
work. Miss Patton, physician, grad
uated from Meharry Medical college, as
she shows her curios from Africa, speaks
of her going to that country as a self
supporting medical missionary and of her
purpose to return to Monrovia after
year S rest.
Whichever way we turn, We are met by
intelligent men and women, eager to
answer every question but not obtrusive in
any sense.
The displays from multiplied universe
ties, seminares, State normal schools, in
dustrial C llegos at associations, orphans
homes, &c, reflect gr. at credit upon the
exhibitors.
Do any one ask the special line in
which the industrial tastes Ct the cUlotcd
people have seemed to ran in the arrange
mont of the products of their hands and
brains: We answer, in every line from
the elegant carriages phaetons harnesses.
carved mantcls and furniture, boots and
shoes, hand made tools, &c. from Hamp
ton and Tuskegcc II really excellent
pieces of statuary like the one of the slave
entitled "chains broken but not off, " the
paintings and drawings of the Amateur
Art Society of Washington, besides hosts
of Others from individuals, dainty needle
work embroidcries crocheting and knit
ting work OF many kinds, framed ribbon
work, &c &c, literally there seemed no
end to what we might have seen had We
more time ut our commend, and no limit
to the attempts and a;tainmcnts Of the
colorcd people. We sea some odd exhibits
Ike the curious patchwork quilt in the
section devoted to the work of the elderly
women of Georgia. We have seen evi
denoes Of the vivid Imagination of the
negro in his word pictures, but never
before such working out of the same by
the fingers Crude it was indeed Adam
and Eve and Cain and Abel in the garden
of Eden, figured conspicnousiy in Turkey
red GU white ground. The picture of
Cain killing Abel must look more tragi
cal than was even the reality, and Gains
going into the land Of Nod, to find a wife,
more grotesque than the veritable trip.
Lovers of the picturesque would do well
to examine these and companion pictures,
but we should hardly recommend the
quilt as a religious chart.
A cornstalll house fitted with cornstalk
furniture and inside stairs, shows what
an ingenious boy Of fourteen can do with
his pen knife 4 tIo-story bay window
house, with picket fence, and an
engine that runs by steam, are the
hau(iiwork Of blind and crippled Lads.
The one thing we desired to bring
home was a beautiful combination oak