The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-25

their duty a men ana women. no [ take particular pleasure h being here and greeting the children of the public schoois and those past childhood. for studying in his college Itself.
 The 6ne all essential thing in Amer thing else. ts to have the average American good man. or good wo- man, and If there is anyone thing that I respect more than good man. tt is a good woman. think she is just . trifle most useful and she has hard entitled to our respect than even the best man. And there is not q man here who is worth his salt. who does not agree with me.
 "Of course. 1t mere truism. to say that ultimate factor in determining the welfare of the nation, is the life of home; that Is, the way in which the ordinary man. the ordinary womans performs his or herordinary duties Of the
 most sacred and intimate kind. if the
 if he is decent and clean in his domes-
 tic life; if he does his duty by his | neighbor; if he is the kind of man
 whom we are glad to have as a neigh
 DOT; that man 1: all right, he is going Tt Is just the same with women. If
 the woman Is a good wife and mother,
 she Is good citizen and not merely good citizen, but she Is the very best
 kind of citizen that this country can produce. What we need is not the de-
 sire to perform the heroic duties un- der altogether exceptional circum-
 stances but the steadfast determination to perform the rather common place du-
 rise Speaking broadly, the man who
 does that Is the man whom you can
 trust if the need for heroism arises.
 Advice to Boys and Girls. l Each boy here should remember
 the utmost possible use, is to act SO
 that your family likes to have you at home, instead of feeling a relief when you are gone; 1t is the same way with the girl. We all of us know an oc-
 have had to work hard; I have had a pretty hard time, my daughters shall | not have to work This is not kind ness to the daughter. it is doing the very worst thing that can be done for | her.
 DO not bring up your boys and girls | to be useless. to avoid trouble, to get around trouble, to shirk work. The man or the woman who counts in life | is the man or the woman who does
 not finch from task. who ovsrcomes
 the obstacle. The boy or girl won't turn out that kind Sof man or woman if they are not hrought up in that spirit from the beginning.
 T want to say that nothing could have pleased me more or touched me more than just the kind of reception today, coming through your beautiful town with the roomy spacious streets, the great trees and being greeted by this assembIage of those whom I am proud to honor as my fellow American citizens.
 A hearty round of applause was given the President when he had con- cluded. A secret service man touched him on the arm and told him It was time to leave
 The party immediately entered car-
 riages and as flags were waved the
 followed by "Dixie." Rowing right and left. with his hat in hand the Presi-
 dent drove out of the college yard to the depot and boarded his train, on
 which he made the mile trip to the Normal Institute grounds. :. At Tuskegee Normal Institute. The Tuskegee Normal Institute. on
 the outskirts of the city, with its wide expanse of buildings and with it's large faculty and student population is in
 itself a small city. As the Presidents special train drew near the grounds were black with humanity.
 From nearly every quarter of Ala bama negroes came to see and honor Theodore Roosevelt, whom they honor as they have honored no other man, not even Lincoln. There were negroes in tho party who gave him an exalted reverence that went higher than even the lofty ofiice of President of the Unf- ted States. There were among the as- sembled negroes men and women who looked upon the President as sort of demi-god, a man with greater ca- pacity to do Food, with a greater de- sire to do good than any mere human being.
 A plantation mammy grey-haired and bandanned threw Der arms towards | ident and exclaimed with that fervor | that characterizes the negro's emo- | tional religion, Goodbye to him. | Goodbye, I'll never see him again. but | he knows in his heart dat loves him."
 A well organized police force made up of students and faculty of the in- stitute had been set to guard the safety | of the President by the principal of the institute, Booker Washington. The | force acquitted itself craditably. The big crowd was well handled and the | avenues through which the Presidents was to drive were kept open. | Sheriff Huddleston of Macon County and his deputies were about everywhere. not | only at the institute but within the | city. They were so active and ef- | fcient that the President took occasion | to say a word in compliment in his formal speech of the work of Sheriff Huddleston.
 Met By Faculty Committee.
 The line of the Tuskegee Railroad has | been extended until 1t runs directly into | the yard of the institute. The Presi- dent was thus able to step from his | private ear into the precincts of the l institute. He was met there by a | committee from the faculty who showed | him to a carriage, built at the insti- tute by students and drawn by horses | raised on the institute farm.
 Buildings and grounds had been | tastefully decorated for the visit of the | President. Broad streamers were hung | from the roof of some of the build inRs and doorways and arches of others | had been wrapped in bunting. The most striking feature of the deeora- lions, however, was a series of arches. Each arch had a distinctive feature and each was decorated with some agri- cultural product. The first arch bore the word Roosevelt in white on a dark blue back ground. Another arch In recognition of the presence of a number of Cuban students bore in large letters the word Cuba"
 The institute band struck up a lively | tune as soon as the President touched the ground and played as he was rapidly driven to the main building of the institute. Here he was greeted by Principal Booker Washington and presented to the other members of the faculty.
 A large platform had been erected m inc east side of this building over Ioolirp inc broad driveway of the |