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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-02
COOKING. Lucy A. Hill.

Ones first impression of Tuskegee Il that if is an immense workshop-its ob- feet, the making of character, anu I.s aim to send out into the world worksrs ws,, with trained hands and minds ana "in- ing hearts.
 My home is in Tyler. Tex: I attended school there from early childhood, ana completed the course in May, icss' ~ .ne age of is. Then began to ask mys1I what I must choose for my lifes work; The name and fame of Tuskegee na9 long been sounded in our little town ana my father decided that Tuskegee was the place for me and my stay here mas made me feel that his decision was wise one
 Among other things. Tuskegee stands for work, the dignity of labor. Carlyie has said. "To labor Is to pray. If that be true, Tuskegee workers are constantly in a reverential attitude.
 1 came to Tuskegee with the determf- nation to learn something that will bene- fit me and my race. l was successfui m making the A middle class and by dili- gent study entered the next higher ciass. school term. My special work. however. is along the industrial line. expect to nn- ish the course in cooking this term. TO this work. then. the preparation ,sa ol teaching of others to do %. I expect to devote much of my life believing that to be a good, conecientious cook IS TOT me, a colored woman living m the Soush- land. an important and worthy work, for Who sweeps a room as in Thy sight, makes that and the action fine"
 1 have entered the nurse training divi- sion with the expectation of finishing that course. This is to be my avocation fin life. While here, I have learned many invaluable lessons. both by prccept and example, and I am always anxious to persuade my Texas friends to come here: have been amply repaid. In fact, nad I not another home and duty to per- form. | should scarcely wish to leave Tuskegee.
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is my fourth year in this grand insti tuition and I shall never regret my conn ing. One not only learns good and profitable trade. but hes also learns from
 the contact afforded by Tuskegee lessons
 that will make his life stronger and bet. ter
 Just at the close of our last schoo year. a very large and disastrous fire visited the city of Jacksonville, Fla.
 which is my home, which destroed prop ert amounting to $l5, ,000.000 We lost that
 which is so dear to all-our home. This
 of course necessitate1 my going home to help father rebuild and show hi n thas Tuskegee's education not only fits an in- dlvidual for the industrial parts of life. but enables him to be willing and ready at all times to assist and comfort his parents. On returning home l set about
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Divisions.

first page
 Booker T. Washington. Principal; war-
 ren Logan. Treasurer; John H. Washing
 ton, Director Mechanical Industries
 Matthew T. Driver. Basiness Agent. George w. Carver. Director Horticultural Department: Emmett J. Scott Secretary to the Principals; Edgar l. Penney, Chai,- lain. James D. Mccall, Director Acadcna- ic Department: Julius B. Ramsey. Com mandant of Cadets; Henry c. Maherrv. l Tn charge Boarding Department: James N. Galloway, Manager Marshall farrn. Mrs. Josephine F. Bruce, Lady Principal. Mrs. Booker T. Washington. Director fn- dstries for Girls.
 The Private Secretary to the Principal Is a young Texas negro, and possesses t4 Il remarkable degree those especial gffff so necessary to make the successf,if Secretary and which make his services
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Ruby L. Washington.

After finishing the eighth grade in May. 189I. at my nome. Loreicana, Tex, IL Was suggested by my Ieacher that l should go to Tuskegec Institute and learn a trade. Knowing that nau no money with which to pay ny way through school and this. being one where l couIu work my way through, 1 at once decided to come. Immediately l wrote the Plin- cipal and gained admIttance In October. 1sgl, 1 came and enteled the night school in the junior class. and worked in the nurse training division where have worked for more than rour years iin- ished the course in nurse training In May, l9tO. feel that 1 have accomplished much at my trade and have quite an expefi- ence- along those lines.
 During the summer of 1898 l worked In the Stenbery United States Hospital at Cnicamauga Ga. This was nospital for soldiers returning from the war There were four nurses besides mySeu - all were Tuskegee students. We did dii- lary nursing.
 inc Superintendent Of Nurses wrot" yrrv cornmeu1story letters concerhlhg our work to the Principal have nursed also in the town of iuskcGc nn sctFr"i o"ca sions. and the doctors there have r,norted that my work was satisfactory. Since finishing my work nave con tinued to work at it as l am tryihg to finish the academic course as we'll That course 1 hope to complete In May.
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DREssMAKINa.
 Mamie K. GoWin.

came to Tuskegee January 1. 1901. My home is in Hazeihurst. Copiah County, Miss. came for the purpose of learning anything which would be beneficial .'o me, and l can emphaticaily say tha . l have been greatly benefited in every re- spect since being here.
 My trade Is dressmaklng. Something prize very highly because l feel when one has a thorough understanding and has learned to be a perfect dressmakef she has in her possession. first, some thing which will be great help to one and to others; second. one has power to demand good wages, as this work is absolutely necessary and the world is In need of conscientious and skillful dress makers.
 1 had some knowledge of sewing be- fore l came here. but since being here have added so much to the little l knew.
 1 have learned the art of drafting. This enables us to draw any pattern which dressmaker requires and in this way we gain great profit. as we haven't anything to deduct from our salaries to purchase the patterns needed.
 intend to get welt equipped In this trade. dressmaklnR. and then to work in every way possible to help others; to
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ish as 1t should. I found Washington as
 modest and as unassuming as he was in his first days of the institution. Still Hs earnest and sincere in his purpose and desire to uplift and improve the condi- ton of his race, and l say, without fear ot successful contradiction. he is easily the leader of the negro race. and the most tactful, resourcefui negro have ever known. His place cannot be easily filled, and the endowment fund he is 50 successfully raising from year to year Is the only thing that can supply the de- ficiencv wben Washington's earthly work Is ended
 The students stories speak for them selves. They tell the plain. unvarnished tale of how they first got into school and what is offered them when they once get in. Nothing tells the story more forcibiy and for that reason that plan was adopted, and am sure it will be
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BLACKSMITHING. George H. Mays.

It has been said that If you train a child up in the way it should go, when he is old he will not depart from 1t.
 This. l think. was my fathers motto. for he first taught me the lessons that there Is true dignity in labor. and in order to succeed in life one must not be afraid to work.
 started out to work at a very early age. My first position of responsibility. if it may be termed such. was with an Italian fruit dealer. who paid me 9 cents week. This amount l thought at that time to be quite large, and I worked very hard for this compensation. l remained with the dealer quite while.
 year after 1 was offered position as newsboy with The Florida Times-U Un- ion. and remained at this wo:k twt years.
 In the meantime I read uui.e d deal of Tuskegce and the excellent system of industries it had: not only the indus tries, but the common sense ideas oi life; hence I decided to come here. This
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I was very much discouraged At that nat ti,,sa ,here was no other place for me but the laundry so had n,S to To6s bs msde 1nede until other arrangements conio oe nbort wht,e WI, before 1 was sent to work in the the Principars office. as an assistant MY work was copying letters. etc rms was my work until the term closed.
 The next term when returned to fry. which I have been glad hc learn. l started with the intention of trying to learn everything I possibly could about tho trade ana doing my very hest. .
 When I first entered the department 1t was really discouraging to sit all day and draw hats, but l found out the only way 10 make a success was to have patience
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The True Story.

Thus we get the true story of the in- stitution. The Principal. in his attract- i've. forceful simple way. tells of it's past work. it's future aims and purposes and his words will be caught and heraldcd abroad with universal approval. The ne- gro is by nature adapted to the agri- cultural work and with the improved methods and modern mode of farming placed within his grasp, being fully inn pressed with the idea that 1t Is the no- blest and most independent of all call ings, the result cannot be but beneficial
 The negroes will furnish the labor for the white farmers where they are needed and wherever they can buy enough land upon which to make a home for them selves and then so farm as to live at home, and to have to spare of all the products of the farm-upon the success of that plan I think depends the future progress and full prosperity of this sec tion. By nature a strictly agricultural country. we had as well try to turn our rivers and creeks to running up stream as to supplant agriculture with anything and expect our section to grow and four
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approved as not only new, but as the most effectual way of getting the inside story of the school and of its methods.
 They speak for almost every department in which l saw with my own eyes that every opportunity is given for prac-
 tIcal and common sense training and space only forbids. very much to my re- gret a full account of that visit. l learned from it. however. that the pu- nids are taught the practical work in each industrial department. just as they are in their books and in shoeing horse, making a suit of clothes, saving
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and work on the little things before I could be able to do the big things.
 l soon finished iny practice work and was then tried on fancy things for my instructor wanted to sec Just what I could do l finished my task and she seemed to think ii was nicely done. From that time on I have been working on anything that is to be done in the mill Iinery line with the expectation of few more things yet to be learned.
 feel that I have F1ce omplished great deal since my stay in Tuskegee, and es- pecially this term
 ov, leaving here I'cxpect to follow this ..ode and am trusting to be successful ss miiliner and credit toTuskegee.
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to put in practice those things which Mir. Washington tries so hard to implant in our minds here. I got right down to the very hardest kind of work such as clean ing bricks. piling lumber. and doing many other things which would have ne- cessitated the hiring Of men,. When the houses had been completed. they were all painted by me, six in number, and the work stands today as an example of Tuskegee's education and Its material value to parent and child.
 I am at present in the senior class having finished my trade. blacksmithing. last term.
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MILLINERY. Alice G. Smith.

When quite u small girl the choir ot Tuskegee sang in Montgomery. Ala, my home, and the inspiration I received was so great. that 1 begged my mother to let me come to Tuskegee. She consented, and today I am student here. came the school year of 1S97-1s9S.
 When l came here I was very anxious to learn trade and especially dress making. After had entered the academ- ic department as day student, my work day came on Wednesday.
 1 was informed that it was utterly im- possible for me to enter the dressmakins department as all vacancies were filled.
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LAUNDERING. Sadella M. Donaldson.

Among my earliest recoliections are some in regard to the good done by the T,iskeree Institute. In my younger days l expressed a desire of becoming stu- dent of the school. and when the oppor- ttinty for attending presented itself, left my home in Mississippi with tho de- termination to stay in school until had completed the course
 As the academic course of study is mapped out, there are two divisions-a preparatory and normal course. requir- ing three and four years respectively to complete.
 When I entered here in the fall of 1892 made the B middle class. which Is the second in the normal course. During the year I attended day school and had my work days. which were Tuesdays and Saturdays in the housekeeping division.
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me by my Principal and teachers and my course of study. 1 feel that l am able to go out and help others as I've been helped.
 l am not able to say where 1 will go nor what I will do after graduating. but l can say wherever l go or whatsoever l do it will be in my feeble way for the uplifting of all mankind.
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training l have received here has fitted make the world better as nearly as can.
 I thank the school and It's principal most kindly for what l have learned since being here.
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invaluable. He had his original training as newspaper worker being eonnectef with the business department of The Houston Post. besides doing a large amount of the reportorial and other lit- erary work for that paper for three years, until he undertook the publication of The Texas Freeman, which he made of great value to his race and in tha publication of which he was engaged when induced to accept hls present po-
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me to do far better. work than the aver. age man of my race Is able to do, ana that shall be able to do great oeai toward the helping of others. When 1 leave Tuskegee. intend to o1 all I possibly can to help the masses or my people; show them by example the
 benefits to be derived from being inous- trious and economical.
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Coming to Tuskesee aAs been of ines tt,naJie value to me. have not only gained inspiration. and completed my course of nurse training. but have learp.. cd the lessons of the dignity of labor and f,xcduess of purpose. and when l shall 20 from here, l shall try to impart to my people the lessons learned at Tus- keRee.
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fS97. and began work at once in the sell entihc agricultural classes. | have dona well. I am sure. s' .t..a stitution. I accepted work as superintend- cnt of a dairy farm in Florida. for a white owner. who accompanied by his family. was in the North for Une year seeking more desirable health.- He said on his return that he was satisfied in every respect He requested me to re main. but ha wing trained another during his absence, and there being an oppor- tunity to re-enter school for further duty, 1 did so after enjoying d splendid year s work. was better fitted for a position again offered me with ca-opcrattve creamery company located 1t 7Reedsviile. Pa. Here Y raised the standard and sx- eeilence of the butter product I also served as farm manager fos the Schoheid School at Aiken. s. C.. but, wishing to complete the academic and agricultural courses I returned to Tuskegee.
 To prepare myself for the reeponsibili- tieS of life Is why I am here. am in work every Monday and every other Saturday in order to he sure that I get all the practice as well as the theory in- structions in agriculture offered here l mean to become successful farmer.
 Charles F. Collins.
 am now 2f years of age. Three years ago. while at my home. Winchester. Tex. I was encouraged by white gen tlemar of the same town to enter some school that 1 might make myself more useful and more helpful to the people of my community. At home my occupation was cattle raising and farming. At last decided to enter the Tuskegee lnsti- tute as the best school affording the op- | portunities 1 sought. In 1898 l entered here. At first l was assigned to work in the agricultural department, the work In which l knew more about than that of machinery. Later on I was offered the trade for which l at first applied but l had learned more about agricul- ture than l every knew before and de. sired it rather than machinery ao l did not change. I have been working il that department now ever since aud find that the more 1 work at 1t. the moro | lesrn of it. the better l like 1t and the harSeA l strive to master it.. can sec that ss. methods employed in conduct ing sucE < business are teaching me that even x A~.Ner can conduct his busi- ness along scientific. economical and in- telligent lines.
 l desire after finishing this school to settle in some portion of the country whether at my home or elsewhere. where l can do the most good for the people and with the people along this special line of industry in which I have had in- struction. l shall strive to show my people how to decentlv and economically conduct their farms.
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Theresa E. Ellsberry.

I WdS DOTH ln MD0tSnmrfN. Ala. NY parents died before l was old enough to know them As l grew up. lived with first one relative and then another. My relatives~did not take as much inter- est In me as a mother could have. and so my educational welfare was not seri- ousIy thought of fo. a long while. When [ was old enough, 1 was sent to pri- vate school where my school life began. aud as l grew older 1 liked school bet ter each time l vent. but unfortunately Tor different reasons. l could not remain In school long at time. I went, how ever, whenever 1 could.
 In November, -fS93sI went to Birming- ham to live with cousin and went to the public school there. The course was not very high then. so after finishing I felt that I could not let my school life end just here. Having heard of MT. Washington and his school. I wrote for catalogue and sought information from those who had been here. October I. i9I. came to Tuskegee and was very fayorably impressed with the people and tho place. The next day I registered and took the examination and made the iun- Tor class. l was very anxious to take sewing as a trade. but learning I would not make very much above my board. decided not to take 1t. 1 wanted to work where I could make most so that I could go in the day school since 1t took two terms in the night school to make one years work in the day school.
 After working two years in the laun- dry. received a certificate and liked laundering 90 well that I work there still Two days in each week I take special lessons in chemistry of launder- ing. i remained in the night school two years and the other three 1 have been in. the day school. I expect to graduate this term.
 My stay in Tuskegee has been quite a successful one and many times I have congra tulated myself on coming here. I have learned many practical lessons here that shall endeavor to impart to my people when I get out In the world. As II lsundress. I count myself quite su-
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feet and an academic diploma. I am sure 1 shall be fitted to begin the struggle oi iifa
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pursued this work in my middle year and received certificate for excellence last May.
 The trade am following this year Is laundering We have we'll equipped laundry in Dorothy Hall. the girls in- d,tstrial building. 1t includes an engine room, two asserting rooms, an ironing roum. and d wash room.
 Along with the practice of laundering special instructions are given to those In the upper classes. We are taught the chemistry of the work: we are taught how to remove stains, how to make soap properly, what starches to use 10 pre- vent rapid mildew and the like
 l have never regretted my coming to TuskeRee, but I do regret that l could not have been under the influence of such u leader as MT. Washington is sooner. have tried to make the most of my advantages. and as go from here in May. ns graduate. nope. l shall endeavor to prove myself worthy of the sacrifices :hat have been made by my parents. and the assistance rendered me by friends and Tuskegee's faculty.
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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-02-20

Of box near the centre. Round Off the
projecting ends of this crosspiece to
fit in the tops of rear uprlghts of run
ners. Put another lighter crosspiece on
bottom of box in front of the other, at
right point to have its projecting ends
rest in the top notches of the front up
rights. Over the ends of the centre
crosspiece, that rest in the rounded
notches. put iron straps, or clips, to
prevent the ends of crosspiece from
moving out of place and yet allow them
TO turn In the notches. The front of
box can now be raised, the centre
crosspiece on bottom acting as pivot
by reason of its rounded ends.
a framework is put up inside the
four uprights, extending under front of
box, and being braccd as is shown in
the illustration. To keep box from
dumping while the sled is being loaded
or in transit, the front end Is fastened
down to this framework by a hinge
hasp and staple, such as are used to
hold shut the lid of chest, door,
etc III the crosspiece which acts as
pivot Is placed a little IN front of box
centre, the sled when evenly loaded
will dump itself as soon as hasp is
disengaged; if a little to the rear of
centre, the front of box will have to
be raised by hand when desiring to
dump it, The exact location of the
pivot crosspiece will, therefore, deter
mine the ease of dumping. and the
matter may be settled to suit the
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-02-20
LABOR AND INDUSTRY

Los Angeles berry growers have or
ganized.
Carroll d. Wright urges the iucorpo-
ration of trade unions.
Springfield, Mass, now has a full
fedged woman's labor unicn.
The city of Duluth has appropriated
81 900 to start free labor bureau.
Nearly 5000 men are at work on the
site of the Worlds Fair Ground at St.
Louis.
On BroolSiyns new labor lyceum
building cornerstone will be laid in
March. 1t will cost $4,000.
The Hercules Gas Engine Company.
Of San Francisco, agreed to give its
employees the nine-hour day and an in
crease of wages ranging. from ~ to I3
per cent. The corporation also agreed
to pay the union price for overtime
time end one-half for night work and
double time for Sundays and holidays.
The Indiana Supreme Court, in af-
6rming a lower court Judgment, held
that an employer cannot, by any con-
tract he may make with his worknien,
rcliegc himself from duties and lianili-
ties which the law expressly imposes on
him. The decision was rendered iii a
miners suit for damages on account Of
injury
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-02-20
How to Set Hens.

1t may seem an easy matter to set
q hen, but unless we understand how
to proceed we will find 1t a rather diff
fcult undertaking, to say nothing of
the disappointment which is sure to
follow unless the work is well done.
First, be sure that the hen is inclined
to sit. Then prepare the nest for her
ia room where she will not be trou-
bled by other hens. When night comes
lift her gently from the nest and take
her to the one just prepared. Do not
put the eggs under her for a day or
two, as she may at first be restless.
Should she not want to remain in the
strange room, it may be necessary to
close up the front of the nest for a
day, and let her become accustomed to
the surroundings.
An old soap box makes n good nest,
the only change necessary being an
opening in the front so that she can
step in without jumping on the eggs.
When she decides to remain on the
Rtst put the eggs under her, and set n
pot of water, pan of corn and a box
Of grit near by and let her alone. Feed
and water her daily but do not dis
turb her Several may be set in same
room, side by side, and will give no
more trouble than a single hen.-Home
and Farm. ,..>