The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
The Story of q Loyal Colored Friend
BY MRS. J. B. REID.

past consideration and an assuring rre- diction that if our colored people could all receive this type of training and les son of loyalty the race problem is set tied question, and conditions are so planned to speed the progress of both races-the one being helpful to the other. The letter expresses the character of the friendship:
 My Dear Miss G.: I wish I could ex- press my greatfulness to you for such a beautiful letter as I received from you at Hampton. It revived the sumbering memory of the devotion all of my people had for you and yours when I was q child. You will know I appreciated the letter when l tell you I sent it home to my parents, asking them to send it to Father Huckabee. You know our parents are declining now and I might say dis couraged at the ways and customs of our people of this day. They wrote ne that the reading of your letter brought tears of joy from their eyes. They re- joiced to know that the tie that bound slave and master the greatest and fond est tie that ever exister still clung in your heart for me, their offspring. ] was glad that l could send them some- thing that meant as much. I must say as they've taught me to know, there Is nobody like our own white folks. With out them and their protection We could do nothing. T read your article in Sun days paper. I enjoyed 1t because I knew the writer was a great and good woman. Your worth, Miss G, can never be known until God reveals in the general iudg ment the many thousand deeds of kind ness done for the poor and needy.
 My old grandmother, if it were possi- ble has told God about your kindness to her and asked for a high and lofty station for you In glory. I used to lay In the trundle bed under her and hear her pray for you and MT. J. l did not know what 1t meant then, but it dawns on me now that those prayers have brought your kind consideration of me and my humble and needy work. would have been up to see you as soon as came home, but I have had sick ness in the house and thus have been confined. I'm planning to add domestic science and sewing to my school this fall My people are elated over your promise to me, and will provide room for the work learned at Hampton some of the things necessary to make my work succeed if l can get required help. I'm more convinced now than ever that the greatest teaching my people need is the proper ways of working for a living and the right methods of decent living I was trained to work and to know no other way to procure living than to work honestly for it. I went 
 work was done to the utter satisfaction of my father, who was strict and unre- lenting. I milked and fed twice a day as many as twelve cows, churned some times from to gallon churn of milk twice and take the butter along to town to my mothers customers, and then go to school. Some of the young people of my race today look to dress up and walk about in the way of other people without doing any honest work. I am teaching against this and mean to do all in my power to show them that they cannot any more live without work than can. Pardon me Miss G. for consuln- ing so much of your valuable time in reading my nonsense. I am so much interested in my work that I want you to know just how much I will appre- ciate any assistance you can give me.
 "Ioping you and yours the rich bless
 ing of God. am,
 ing of God. I am greatfully yours,
 HATTIE H. HUCKABEE.