The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-30
if there came little place in the pro-

if there came a little place in the pro-
 gramme.
 "So I waited and waited. I had that speech all bottled up inside me, and I just wanted to let it go. Days and days went by, and then one day MT. Ogden said l might speak for just five minutes.
 Can't I have more than five minutes? I asked him.
 "' 'Non He said it just like that'-Niss Berry shook her head with meek grim ness, and the boys all laughed
 Well I said to myself I'll just have to say 1t all in five minutes; I've got to do it-and I talked just as fast as I could. And when the five minutes was up, Mfr. Ogden said:
 Go ahead Miss Berry. talk just as long as you like.
 And now I am going to return the compliment by calling on Mir Ogden to speak, and letting him talk just as long as he likes"
 Mir. Ogden to the Boys.
 Your correspondent has forgotten some of MT Ogdens speech, but one of his bons mots, calculated in most earnest manner, was:
 You are the best dressed company Of boys that I ever sawi'
 Because you are dressed for business" he added, after the laughter of 150 boys with sense of humor had died away.
 How were they dressed? For the field. Some wore soft cotton shirts, mostly open at the throat. One had a mustard colored flannel shirt. All were clothed In overalls or some form of rough trousers suitable for work-about the garb that day la
 borers wear, save for one important diff ference: All these garments were mirac-
 ulously clean. When one looked at these boys the fabled capability of clothes to
 make the man dwindled and dwindled
 dicor,
 visitors who had come on hot and
 dusty railroad journey, found themselves
 envying the boys their clean, cool faces.
 There was something more than cleanli-
 ness about those faces, certain nobility
 which was striking. These, remember,
 were children of the poorest, most isolat-
 ed and most ignorant mountain whites of
 the south. Let New Workers who read this imagine a company of 15O persons
 in which there was not one foreigner or person of foreign parentage Imagine body of schoolboys so eager to have an education and so appreciative Of their benefits that they are unanimous for good order and honest work. None of
 your conventional school rules are nee- essary in this school The mere crook ing of Miss Berrys least finger estab- fishes law here.
 One could not help recalling at this mo- ment the institutions for incorrigibles along tie banks of the Hudson, known as military academies, and the schools for rich mems sons where learning has to be beaten in by sheer force. Especially one visitor had in mind fashionable boys school in Washington where a bay of IA nulllfied all discipline and defied all authority. saying:
 My fathers a millionaire. He owns half of Texas"
 Miss Berry could fill her school with rich mems sons in the time it takes to send 150 letters by mail. One father recently
 urged her to take his son. and offered to
 make a gift of 5000 in addition to the boys tuition. Miss Berry refused. You have schools in -" she said, naming the progressive southern city where the man lived. You boy has plen- ty of educational advantages. There are thousands of these mountain boys who have no schools at all. Mine is for them." And 1t is. Great though the need of money, Miss Berry has never allowed the character of her school to be changed one iota. It is for boys who cannot get any other school facilities. No boy younger than 16 is received nor any boy who has had more than nine months of schooling. Imagine the intellectual need of grown boys who are scarcely beyond the B c stage and the satisfaction of helping boys who are so eager to learni Why when Miss Berry went out seven years ago to recruit her first pupils she found two boys Tn an unKempt caDln in the far hills, boarding themselves and paying a superannuated pedagogue $2 a month to teach them Creek Team of Oxen for Tuition. One of the boys who ''came down. last fall brought team of oxen for his tui- ton. It was behind those oxen that the ogden party drove around the school farm at least, as many of them could get on a wood wagon fitted with two long plank seats and labelled on each side Seeing Miss Berrys School" The boy
 who had brought the oxen drove. There are no servants on the place. The boys do all the work, and the dignity of honest labor reaches its fullest exemplit- cation here. These boys have found that man may get down on the floor and scrub or thrust his arms into soapsuds like woman and wash clothes, and still be a man. They do it well, too-and that is not all-they follow the blow with equal facility.
 The waxed floors of the palace at Yer sailles do not shine any more brilliantly than those of Miss Berry's log cabin company of a dozen or more boys do all the cooking for the school. They make jellies and preserves from fruit raised on the place. Others make butter and cheese in the dairy. A lady in the Ogden party asked
 DO you find that you feel less manly