The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-02-28

the half has not been told. I was a slave twenty years. learned te use economy. used to work six days for my master and Sunday for myself. God introduced Ten Commandments, but the people have added another, Thou shalt not work on Saturday stick to the ten and in that way have bought three hundred acres of land and paid for it. When a man gets in debt Providence is always against him. run a four-horse crop. have four hogs. They are trained. I am hera but they are doing the work. Last year raised twenty-four bales of cot ton. keep an account ln ths Georgia Railroad Bank and pay all my bills by check I have frame house sixty by twenty-five, with an L thirty feet. There are ten in my family. I nave fif- teen buildings on my place, six of them tenement houses. No man is farmer but he that lives off from his farm
 Doc Tyner, of Macon county, said: ''I have been coming here for four or five years At first had nothing, bus made up my mind to get something" He showed samples of his turnips, raised in the winter. very large and fine. from seed received at the confer ence last year. He has seven horses and eighteen head of cattle. He runs four blows.
 NJ. S. Alexander, of Maillard. La, said: 'I borrowed two hundred and fifty dollars of my father in 1877 to buy land. bought twelve acres at twenty five dollars per acre.. I was out at four o'clock in the morning. I raised what we ate. I began in small way to plant cane. In seven years I got so 1 raised twenty-seven hogsheads of su- gar and several barrels of syrup. For one year my wife ground our meal, three ears at time. in small hand mill Our lands are now worth one hundred dollars per acre. I own three hundred acres of sugar land. have twenty-seven white and orty-eight col ored people at work for me. The Ital- ians draw the larger part of their earn ings in cash, the colored spend theirs almost wholly in the store"
 James Whilbrow, Macon county, said:, T got hold of two steers and my wife and I worked them three days in the week and hoed the balance of the week. have now 1,13O acres. I have a four-room house. I started with two log pens. I owe one thousand dollars. have fifteen mules and twenty-seven head of cattle. When I was buying my land used to sell butter on Saturday morning and catch me four or five rab- bits in the evening""
 Mrs. Hubbard, Laurel, Miss, said she had three lots and a good house. She got it by hard work.
 MT. Coleman, of Butler county, said he started with oxen and had worked up to mules and horses. He has six hundred and eighty acres of land paid for. T got my start by working hard and wearing homemade clothes; my wife made the cloth. I have four room house. I began in a log pen. run six blows" A school farm of ten acres was run In his community which netted one hundred and thirty-nine dol uads for the school.
 R. c. Carter, young man from But Ter county, said he and his father to- gether have two hundred and thirty six acres. They make no debts.
 Thomas Buchanan, of Macon county, said: We come here to learn wisdom and knowledge. I had part of the slavery time and all of the freedom time. When I was in my eighteenth yearI wanted to marry the worst sort. I tried every plan. I worked Sunday as we'll as Monday. I even hitched my self to the blow and my wife ploughed me Five years ago I hade another start. have got horses, mules, meat, corn and plenty of everything to do me, but haven't got any home, but when ocme next year am ngoig to have one"
 MT. Reese comes from Mississippi. He said there are good people in Misissip- pi. Ht saidno one abjected in Missis- sippi to tnyones raising all tthe corn or cotton he wished to or owning all the land he could pay for. In Jackson county, Miss, the colored people own property, personal and real, to the value of one hundred thousand dollars. Jackson county has five students at Tuskegee. Advertisers Report,