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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-04
DAILY WHEAT MOVEMENT.

The following are the receipts and shipments
at the principal primary wheat markets:
Receipts, Shfpments
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-04

yeSLeruay. sCrOuR
westerns. ~' .
Butcher Cows and Heifers-2o 1,o19 lbs,
$3.50; 1, $40 lbs, $2.75.
Cutters and Canner-S westerns, 9o6 lbs,
$225; 3, s43 lbs, $21O; l, $40 lbs, $1.50; 1, $40
lbs $1.5O. ..s.e
Butcher Bulls western, 1,2so lbs, 1925; l,
80 lbs, $500.
as lbs $780, i1s 1$o IL; Ids
Stock and Feeding Steers-s 1893 lbs, s2.s5;
6, $50 lbs So. go.
sHEEP-Nothing was received in the sheep Ill.
vision to-day and no trading was done. The
market was nominal.
Among the shippers on the market were: Bill
ings & Miles, Dawson, n. D.; c.. II. Sanders
North Yakima, WASH; Zilskie Bros Traverse
F. e. James, Pulver, S. D.; Gallery & Kelly,
Morgan; T. NJ. Lewis, .Lewisville; E. G. Nelson,
Walnut Grove. E,-.s ...
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-04
HIDES, pE1rs, FuRs AND WOOL.

Mol No.2.
Green sailed ad1tsa heavy s.agy coy Ial hides 81 sM
Green sailed light hides ............ * 6%
Green sailed calf s to Is lbs .1oM q
Green sailed veal kip ................ SIX
Green salted deacons, each .........,35 m45
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-04
MONEY REPORTS

Total sales, 21S, 200, shares.
ExdiYidend.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-04
Money for the Work.


The money for government irrigation
comes into the federal treasury thru the
| sale Of public lands in the western states.
! This money, instead Of being covered into
the general fund of the treasury, as
! heretofore, Is now set apart into a special
. fund, under the act of congress, to be
used exclusively for irrigation purposes
/ The fund grows at the rate Of about
! 50 5000 900 per year, and now aggregates
almost SIS, 900, 900, as stated above
The government has this year put under
way five irrigation projects, the largest
one being in the Salt River valley Of
Arizona. 1t will cost about 49, 900, OOO and
will not be completed short Of four years.
One of the other projects is in the Milk
river valley in Montana This, also will
require several years for completion. The
other three are in northern California,
Colorado, and Wyoming, respectively.
BY next year the secretary of the in
terror who has charge Of the administra-
ton of the law. and whose active agent
Is the geological survey, will be ready to
announce still other projects. The plan
of the government is to expend the fund
as rapidly as possible, and thus complete
the several projects at as early day as
possible. - ...'t ~. '.
Congress Of Great Interest. ,.
The national irrigation congress this
year will be Of special interest because of
the elaborate preparations of the govern
ment to develop its immense schemes.
There will be delegates from all of the ir-
|rigation states and territories, and bust
ness men from the east, who now under
stand that irrigation in the west will open
new markets for eastern goods
All of the projects selected this year by
the government look to the building OF
large dams in which to store the waste
water of certain rivers. In the spring sea-
son these rivers are full to oyerhowine.
in the summer many of them are practi-
cally dry. The plan is to store up the
water coming in the spring so that it may
be used during the crop season by irri-
cation farmers.
w. w. ;Jermane.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-04

Prices quoted 8 to 10c higher. Not enough re-
ceived to make a market: quality unchanged.
What little there here sold at range from
SIS to $3.50 Bulk quoted So to $40. Common
to good heavy hogs are quotable from $4.S5 to
SIS. 50; fair mixed from $40 to $3.50 and light
and light mixed from $50 to $5;95. 49,
Hogs-6 165 lbs, $500; SO. 1919 lbs, $40;
~, 2le lbs, $3.50; As, 3o7 lbs, IS.
Odds and Ends, 24s lbs, s5.1b; 8, a55 lbs,
IS; 6. 2S1 lbs $500. .--...- .... IT. =
CATTLE-Receipts light. market quiet in all
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-04

Sales. Stocks. High Low Bid. Bid
est. est. Sept. 4ISept. 3
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-04

Argentine wheat crop Is growing wen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

Another way that we assist the public l school system of the South is by send ing out men and women who become the teachers of teachers. One of the best ex- l amples of this Is the case of Isaac Fish CT. poor young man who came to Tus- | kegee a number of years ago and worked
 his way through, so far as his board was concerned. Two years ago MT. Fisher, on my recommendation, was elected by the State officials of the State of Arkansas
 to the important position of Principal | of the Branch Normal College of Pine Bluff. Ark, which is the main institution for training colored teachers for the public schools of that common wealth. Mir. Fisher has associated with him a rather large force of teachers, two of whom are also Tuskegee graduates In the school are students a large propor- ton of whom will become not only public school teachers in the usual sense, but, having been trained by Mir. Fisher in the industries. will also introduce them grad ualE into their teaching. There Is hardly Q single Southern State where our men and women are not found in some of the larger schools for teacher training.
 While students at Tuskegee, our men and women are instructed constantly iD methods of building school houses and prolonging the school term. It is safe to say that outside the larger Southern cit- les and towns in the rural districts one will find nine-tenths of the schoos wholly unfit for use, and rarely Is the public school session longer than five months. In most cases 1t is not more than four. These conditions exist largely because of the poverty of the States. One of the problems of our teachers is to show the people how through private effort they can build school houses and prolong the school term.
 Milton Galloway left Tuskegee three years ago. While here, in addition to talk ing the normal course, he learned the trade of tinsmithing When he returned to his home at Union Springs, Bullock County, Alabama, he secured a school some distance in the country. The term of the school was 80 short that Galloway found he could not live all the year by teaching during the three or four months of the session Now the term Is six months. Calloway's trade came to his rescue. Soon after he began teaching ho made an arrangement with a white ma
 in the town by which he was to work in his shop on Saturdays and during his va cation months. By following this plan, the school is gradually being put upon its feet largely by reason of the fact that Mir Galloway Is teaching the people now to save their money. improve the school house. prolong the school term and buy homes.
 Moses P. Simmons, another one of our graduates in an adjoining County. has
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

hose made from cotton raised by our students.
 Since starting this experiment. we have received applications from both English and Belgian cotton-raising companies that wish to secure Tuskegee men to introduce cotton raising in their African posses- sions. The Porto Rican Government makes an annual appropriation for the purpose of maintaining eighteen students at 1uskegee in order that they may learn our methods. The Haytian Government has recently arranged to send a number of young men here mainly with the view of their being trained In farming. Be- sides. we have students present from the West Indies. Africa and several South American countries.
 Another branch of agriculture to which we have for number of years given special attention is dairying. We have demands from Southern white people for more trained dairymeh than we have thus far been able to turn out
 In 1S9S L. A. Smith finished the course of training in dairying and in academic branches. after making his way through by working in the day and attending school at night during q great portion
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

mattress making. In the carpenter shop. the last road mending, the most import ant of all is taught the students by prac- teal, daily work on the public roads. This is sensible and wise, for tvery one of these same students will be confronted with this road problem every day of their lives that they remain In khis Southern country and 1t Is well that they should know how to improve and build up our present highways. They have seen and felt the neds of good roads in the prairie country and will profit by this practical training.
 What They Are Doing.
 have the question so often asked me, what the negroes turned out of this in- stitution are doing as a result Of their instruction and training. The report shows that carefully kept record re- veals the fact that not single one Of the graduates has ever been convicted Of crime or sent to a State penitentiary. The enrolllnent to date for the school year of 1903 is l,S92 in different departments and annexes, Diligent investigation has not found a dozen of the former stu dents to be in idleness. They are at work in schoolroom, field, shop. home or church
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

and are busy because they have placed themselves in demand by learning to do that which the world wants done. and because they have learned the disgrace of idleness and the sweetness of labor One of the greatest endorsements that confronts the schools at the present time is the inability to supply any large pro- portion of the demands that are con- stantly coming from the people of boAh races, North and South, for students. But aside from their skill. what has made these nien and women succeed is the spirit of unselhshnesS and a willingness to sac ri1ce themselves for others instilled into them here. In many eases, while buiid- ing up a school in a community, they work for months without any fixed salary or promise of salary, because they have learned that helping some one else is the secret of all happiness.
 Owing to the demand for those trained at the school. 1t is difficult to keep any large proportion of students until they graduate. For thls reason 1t is not so easy to show the results of the work in , concrete worm as 1t would be if a larger number of the students finished. But the fact Indicates that the school is achiev- ing its purpose in preparing its students to do what the world wants done.
 The Practical Results.
 Many incidents are given as a result of the investigation to find what the students were doing and in what lines of work they are engaged. There is nothing of more interest in all talk of this school just now and offer no apology for gtv- ing more space to show how they are working and how they have improved their opportunities of instruction and practical training at the institution.
 Some years ago young man named Williams came to Tuskegee from Mobile, Alabama. Before coming he had nearly completed the public school course of study at Mobile and had been earning about 50 cents a day at various kinds of unskilled labor. He came to extend his studies in academic branches, with the object of combining this with the trade of brick-masonry. To take the full course in brick-masonry. including mechanical drawing and so on, he should have re- mained three years. He remained for six months only. During this time he got some rough knowledge of brick-masonry and advanced somewhat in his academic studies. When he returned to Mobile 1t soon became known that the young man had been working at brick-masonry. At once he was dubbed a full-fedged brick mason As there was unusual activity in building in Mobile just then. instead of having to seek odd jobs. he found him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

yer. the instructof in dairying, to the ef- feet that he will employ any one that Mir. Carver recommends. Not far from Mir. soott's dairy Is smaller one owned by Mir. E. J. Hughes. another white man. Some time ago Mfr. Hughes secured Lu- ther M. Jones. who had taken only at par tial course fin dairying at Tuskegse, to make butter and cheese for him.
 Such examples can be found in nearly every one of the Southern States.
 While referring to agricultural subjects, ought to add that. beginning threo years ago. we now give the opportunity to class of our women to learn garden ing. fruit growing. dairying, poultry rais- ing and bee ieping. As yet there has not been enough time in which to judge of the value of this new feature of the school.
 From the first the work of this institu- ton has been closely related to the public school system of the South, for 1t must be clear to all that in the last analysis we must depend upon public schools for the general education of the masses, and it is most important that the larger insti- tutions for the education of the negro keep in close and sympathetic touch with the school officials of the Southern States.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

are its graduates doing to show that they have profited by their learning and train- ing at this school2 1t is a reasonable question, and in view of the present con- ditions In the South 1t is perfectly nat ural that information should be desired along that line. If the school is teaching the negro to take up industrial pursuits and by labor to work their way along In the world. In how far are the pupils car rying out the advice given them here? This Is the meat of the whole matter at issue and information up 1t is what is most desired, and 1t Is just what propose to show before am done by the reports of those who have taken the trouble to investigate the matter and who give the plain facts and figures to sustain their as- sertions.
 A Recent Visit.
 About the first of December visited the school again and as usual found it a busy beehive and city of It's own. One Is impressed with the magnitude of the establishment and filled with admiration for the massive brain that could plan and carry on such a vast and wonderful or= ganization. They do everything and make everything within the confines of the Tus- kegee Industrial Institute and 1 have thought that if you were to build a high wall around them and shut them out from the rest of the world they would be SC f. sustaining and could just live on there Indefinitely. There Is improvement and growth on every hand every time I come and I think as I stand and look around me in amazement, as I behold the mag nificent buildings and the beautiful fields and take in all the surroundings, Is there no end to the possibilities of this great undertaking and no limit to the conception and ground work of the man who has done 1t all himself. Booker Washington has done 1t all-by his tact by his native ability, wonderful knowledge of his fel- 1owmen, he has builded a monument here that will live as long as time shall last and be an honor and blessing to the entire negro race. He has bui'ded wisely and well and sometimes find myself wishing that Washington might live always, for I cannot see who can ever take his place have known the bitter prejudice and hate and the almost insurmountable ob- stacles he has met and successfully over come. have known him from the be- ginning of his work to the present day and I have to admit that have never in all my experience known a man. white or black, who has measured so completely up to every expectation and met so success fully every requirement. find at Tus- kegee the results of his handiwork and point to it as to what manner of man be is The story Is of the work up to
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

neat. attractive house, barn and out buildings, and a small sugar house for boiling syrup from the cane which he raises for his own consumption. Ills home and farm are models for other farms. He raises not only cotton, but also corn and oats, vegetables, fruit, live stock and fowls. He has a particularly fine peach orchard. MT. and Mrs. Cp- shaw are leaders In the county Farmers Institute. Mrs. Upshaw Is also mem Der of the Mothers Meeting which assem- bles regularly at Tuskegee town, While MT. Upshaw's present house Is better than the average farmhouse in that sec ton, stilly, when I last visited this farm, I found lumber on the ground to be used in erecting a new and larger house. Hun dreds of such examples could be cited. 1 I have given these seven examples
 largely for the reason that people who know absolutely nothing about the suo- | feet often make the statement that when a negro gets any degree of education he
 will not yyork-especIally as a farmer. As rule, people who make these sweeping assertions against the negro are blinded l by prejudice. The Judgment of any man,
 black or white that Is controlled by race
 prejudice Is not to be trusted. With one l exception I did not know of the farm ing operations of these men before taking the drive referred to, but was not in the leased surprised at what saw be-
 cause my years of experience have
 brought me into constant contact with
 Tuskegee men and women all over the
 South, and wherever have met them have found that they had In some degree
 raised the level of life about them.
 Other Examples.
 1.sat January, whn in Los Angeles.
 California, I met by chance young man
 who had taken a partial course in our nurse-training department. l asked him If he were refecting credit upon the Tus- keEee Institute? Without word he pu led out aL bank book and asked me to inspect if I found a credltable sum to his credit. Before I was through inspecting the first hank hook. he handed me a second which contained another amount to ms credit at another bank
 Barre one of our graduates. is one of the leading trained nurses Of that city.
 Nearly three years ago three Of our graduates went to Africa under the leadership of one of our teachers MT. ], N. Galloway. to introduce cotton raIs- ing among the natives under the auspices if the German Government. At the end of the fourth year the experiment was successful to the extent that hundred haIes of cotton have been ship ned from the colony of Togo Africa, to Berlin. Only few months ago the German officials were l kind enough to send me several pairs or
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13
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Another year has come and gone With
 she Tuskegee Normal and Industrial ln- etitute, and the results of this perlod are
 ns wonderful and marvellous as the form CT years of its history and even more s1. if possible. The work that the Principal, Booker T. Washington. has done and Is doing here is a story that Is never tire some and will always be of interest, for there is constantly something new and novel about it. One would think that the tact and resources of the man wouli be exhausted but not so with Washington, for he is keeping pace with the times and keeping step with the steady onward march of progress and advancement that has seized upon the age in which we live. The problem of the elevation and I'm.
 provement of the negro has been solved in this institution and the boy or girl who passes successfully passes through all of the departments and gets diploma here Is vastly improved morally and mentally and Is ready to take up the roll of citi- Eenshfp successfully and with honor to themselves and to their Alma Mater, The question is being asked just now above all others. what practical results are being accomplished by the institution and what
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

except the employees operating 1t and the proprietor are permit ted to enter. Mir. Smith also did some very important chemical work in connection with lawsuit which was sup posed to involve the manufacture of spu- rious butter.
 In Montgomery County. Ala. for a num- Der of years, MT. NJ N. Scott, a Southern white man. has operated the largest and most successful dairy farm in his section. MT. Scott has in his employ three Tus- kegee men, with Scott Thomas in charge. MT. Scott constantly tells us that those men trained at our school are the most efficient that he can secure. He keeps a standing order with MT. George w. Car
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

Infirmary. When inquired for her was taking care of a private oase { owns two good houses on Union strl and on High street, both of which saw. She also owns a vacant lot"
 There were only three whose recol were found to be uncertain or unsa factory. The same kind of investizatl VIII reveal almost similar conditions lsung In a greater or less degree other Southern cities.
 In Smaller Towns.
 NOW let me show their life in snnaj towns; one containing between l0Oo 2 5000 inhabitants. Some fine Mir. Bedford. one of our trl tees' made 8 personal investIl ton in Eufaula, Alabama. quote direI ly from MT. Bedford as to what he four
 sidney Murphy. graduated in 1887. went at once to Eufaula. For thl years he taught and farmed in the col try. He was then made principal of 1 colored public schools Of the city. still holds this position, and is now eel ing his thirteenth year. He has a nl nome in the city, three houses that rents, and some vacant lots.
 John Jordan, 1901, a graduate in hj ness making. opened a shop in Eufaul September, 1901. He reached Eufa,l with SIS and a very few tools. He pd T license, $3.50 in advance for A mont rent. and had $5.50 for board and ott expenses. He curtained off a little sps n his shop for bedroom, and with oil stove cooked his own meals. In ii way he saved up $50, but lost it in q failure of the bank of Eufaula, Ha h gone right on with his business, and nd has one of the best shops in the city. has established the Peoples Libra which now has more than 600 avolumea It. He has a reading-room and liters society over which he presides, and superintendent of the A. M. E. Sund school"
 Alter having spent several years at school, during which they worked ur the school farm. Frank and Dow l.. RI left Tuskegee at the completion of Middle Class. Frank, the older broI CT, left in the year 1888. and Dow in { year 1891. Before coming to Tusked these young men had lived upon a rent farm with their father, but on returni home they decided to buy a farm of tn own. They entered into an agreement purchase a farm of 320 acres, four mil from the old homestead, and with lit or no money, but with a determination succeed. they began to cultivate the laI They agreed to pay $5.50 per acre for place, and regardless of the fact that th had little money at the time they boud the farm. within few years the whI amount of $1.760 was paid. In additionl this farm, the Reid brothers, as they styled for miles around, have bous
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13
Practical Details of Booker Washington's Vol

was able to get out of his six months at Tuskegee a mental. spiritual and bodily awakening that fixed his purpose in life. Not only thIs. but he got such e start in his trade that by close study and obser- vation he was able to improve from month to month in the scope and quality of his work, and within a few months he ceased to work for other people by ses day and began to take small contracts. At the present time Williams Is one of the most substantial colored citizens of Mobile. He owns his home and Is a re- liable and successful contractor, doing im- portant work for both races. In addition to being a successful brick-mason and contractor, he owns and operates a dairy business, and his patrons are not confined by any means to the members of the ne- gro race,
 The value, then. of the work of schools, where the trade or economic element en- ters so largely as 1t does at Tuskegee, cannot be judged in any large degree by the number of students who finish the full course and receive diplomas What is true of the course in brick-masonry is true in a larger or smaller degree of ell the other thirty-seven industrial divisions of the school.