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had always been at a disadvantage because I did not know how to 

 do any kind of work really well. So I came here and began to 

 learn carpentering. I have the trade nearly learned now, and 

 when I graduate from here I shall know how to really work." 



Soon after beginning my long car ride from Tuskegee back to 

 the North I stepped into the mail car on the train to post some let- 



DAIRTING DIVISION ; MAKING BUTTER. 



ters. The envelopes I had used bore the imprint of Tuskegee In- 

 stitute in the corner. As I handed them to the postal clerk, he 

 glanced at the printing in the corner and exclaimed: "I say, that 

 Booker Washington is a wonderful man, isn't he? I never saw 

 him, but he's teaching those people there to work." Then he went 

 on to tell me about a young colored man whom he had known who 

 had gone to Tuskegee and learned harness-making, and then come 

 home to set up business for himself. This man told me later that 

 he had never been farther north than Louisville. 



It seemed to me as if here was an interesting coincidence of 

 unsought testimony, and all tending to show how consistently Tus- 

 kegee teaches a gospel of work. Industrial training goes hand in 

 hand there, with mental and moral teaching, in earnest effort to 

 help the thousand young negro men and women there and make 

 their lives count for the most possible for themselves and their race. 



Any one who has heard Mr. Washington speak at any length to 

 audiences of his own race knows how earnestly he advocates indus- 



