Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23


gaily, and he never despaired Unlike many
another fighter he never had his times of
depression when the fight hardly seemed
worth waging. While an educator Cen
eral Armstrong held a high rank, 1t is as
a builder of character that he will be long
remembered Booker L. Washington, prin-
Opal of Tuskegee Institute, was a student
at Hampton Institute in it's earlier years,
and. as Mrs. Talbot says, received the bap-
tlsm of General Armstrong; spirit, and has
since his graduation carried on a similar
work. He has written for Mrs. Talbot's
book his estimate of General Armstrong;
task, which is worth quoting. He says:
"As / have often heard him explain his
theory of Industrial education-both to me
personally and to the school-when / was
q student at Hampton, l think 1 might
state his objects briefly as follows:
First. He was anxious to give the colored
people an idea of the dignity, the beauty
and civilizing power of intelligent labor
with the hands. He was conscious of the
fact that he was dealing with a race that
had little necessity to labor in It's native
land before coming to America, and after
coming to this country was forced to labor
FOR 80 years under circumstances that were
pot calculated to make the race fond of
hard work.
Second. 1t was his object to teach the
negro to lift labor out of drudgery and toll
by putting thought and skill into 1t.
Third. He saw that through the me-
dunn of Industrial education he could bring
the two races in the south into closer rela-
lions with each other. He knew that in
other matters there were differences which
IL would take years to change. but he
knew that industrially the interests Of the
two races were Identical In the south
and that as soon as he could prove to a
southern white man that an educated
skilled negro workman was Of more value
TO the community than an ignorant. shift
less one, the southern white man would
take an interest in the education of the
black boy.
Fourth Through the industrial sys,ar,
at the Hampton Institute 1t was his object
TO give the students opportunity to work
out portion Of their boarding expenses
In this way he meant to prevent the school
becoming dollhouse for producing stu
dents with no power of self-help or indie
pendence. ! have often heard him say that
the mere effort which the student put forth
through the industries at Hampton to help
himself was of the greatest value to the
student, whether the labor itself was OF
much value or not. In a word he meant to
use the industries as means of building
characterize teach that all forms of labor
were honorable and all forms Of idleness a
disgrace"
In closing his estimate. Prof Washing
ton remarks: 1T is seldom In my opinion
that one individual has had the opportunity
through single idea to revolutionize the
educational thought and activity of so large
proportion OF the world as has been true
or the founder of Hampton"
WHEN WILDERNESS WAS KING, n
Tale OF the Illinois Country. BY Randall Par
rsh Illustrations and decora tons by Troy and
Margaret West Kinney. Chicago: A. c. Me-
Ciurg Co.
What mercy 1t IL for the novelists that
men sometimes forget to ask direct, simple
questions! For this tendency to let slip op-
portunities for full understanding lead to
most OF the complexities which go to make
up the plots of romances Had John Way-
Hand on arriving at Fort Dearborn in the
summer OF 1912. persisted in his search of
Elsa Matherson and asked all whom he met
where she might be found he would have
been saved much heartburning and the read.
er many doubts as to his fitness for the mis-
sion on which he had been dispatched by his
father. But then the story would have
lacked many of the elements which. as Ii
stands. 1t now offers to hold the interest.
Yet there would still have been a story,
and stirring one at that tale OF ad-
venture and danger and bloodshed. finding
its climax in the frightful slaughter of the
whites at Fort Dearborn by the assembled
Indians of many tribes and the escape.
after thrilling experiences of the chief
actors In the drama The description of
that day OF massacre is well sustained
and follows historical lines closely enough
to satisfy the stickler for accuracy in fic-
tion based on fact. The Illustrations are
exceptionally satisfying, the Kinneys CON-
tributing materially to the successful an
peal OF the book with half a dozen we'll
drawn full-page pictures In rich color and
large number of chapter initials charac-
teristic OF the text
-FOUR ROADS TO PARADISE. By Maud
Wilder Goodwin. author OF ''sir Christopher
&c Illustrated by Arthur l. Keller. New York:
The Century Company.
In the Talmud occurs this passage: -Four
men entered paradise: one beheld and died,
one lost his senses. one destroyed the
young plants. one only entered In peace"
From this theme Mrs Goodwin has evolv-
ed story of today which is one of the ar
tistic successes of the season. one of the
books that stir the sentiments and suggest
paore than the text itself discloses Four