is report on the financial condition of the school for the year May 31, 1907, Mr. Washington says:

"Since my last annual report, $256,154.39 have been added to the endowment fund, increasing it to $1,494,021.64.

"The value of the school property as represented in buildings, land, equipment, etc., not counting endowment, is now placed at $917,237.60.

"The largest single gift that has come to us during the year is that of $231,072.00, left as a bequest by the late Mr. Albert Wilcox, of New York city. The amount has been added to the endowment fund.

"During the year 1904-5 there were enrolled in the regular normal and industrial departments 1,504 students-1,000 young men and 504 young women-an average attendance of 1,224.

"In 1906 a negro farmers' newspaper was established at Tuskegee and has a wide circulation among the negroes of the south. This is probably the first local newspaper devoting itself exclusively to the affairs of a single locality ever printed and published in the interest of a negro farming community.

"It aims to take account of every effort for progress and improvement made by an individual or a community in the county. The building of a new school house in a community or the purchase of a mule by some individual in that community is an item of general interest.

"Six thousand students have come for a longer or shorter time under the influence of the institution during the past twenty-five years. So far as I have been able to learn, not one of the graduates has been convicted of a crime, and less than 10 per cent of these are failures in the occupations which they have adopted. Twenty-five Years of Tuskegee.

“A large number of race interests that for one reason or another seem to center at Tuskegee Institute add considerably to the expense of conducting the institution.

"Close examination will show, I think, that in a large sense these outside movements are educational and have a race-building value. Among them are the Tuskegee Negro Conference, with its numerous branches; the National Negro Business League, with over 400 branches, and the Colored Department of the Alabama State Fair, as well as other racial matters, which make necessary an enormous correspondence."

The average colored man sees money only once a year—when he sells his cotton. Booker T. Washington advised raising chickens and vegetables, and, having something to sell, so as to get used to handling money all the year, and then not to spend it for candy, red-wheeled buggies, organs, accordions, banjos, and cheap sewing machines.

Booker Washington further states in "Negro Self-Help":

"A pup gets his eyes open in nine days, but it took us niggahs thirty-nine years from 'mancipation to get our eyes open."

"The colored people support the liquor dispensaries. We say, "The Lord blesses these white people, while it is really the colored people who bless them by buying whiskey of them. The white man will live in a big house with ten rooms, well furnished, while the colored man lives in the bare, oneroomed cabin, all because the colored man spends his nickles, dimes, and quarters buying beer and whiskey from the white man. But that is not the right kind of a blessing."

Mr. Scott Bond, a negro of Crittenden, Arkansas, is quoted in the same pamphlet in an address before a Tuskegee Negro Conference as follows:

"Give a horse clover and a warm stable, and you can't drive that animal away. Treat your sons properly, and they'll behave as well as a horse, Too many negroes live like hogs! Yes, sir, like hogs! The girls don't know how to sweep a room; and yet they want to ride in first-class cars, with clean people. God forbid!"

Besides the Tuskegee Institute, which is the largest and most important negro school in the world, there are at present, according to the Government Bureau of Education, 155 other industrial schools in the United States for negroes (besides 254 high schools and secondary schools).

We have spent about $800,000,000 on negro education since the war. The people of Alabama in framing their laws have been especially scrupulous in giving the colored race these advantages, and during the last thirty years the southern states have expended $115,954,299 for negro education.

The South is at present expending $4,000,000 annually to educate the negro.

Among their most important industrial schools are the following: Alabama Agricultural and Mechanic Arts College for Negroes, at Normal, Alabama; Delaware State College for Colored Students, at Dover; Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute for Colored Persons, Frankfort, Kentucky; Princess Anne Academy for Colored Persons, Princess Anne, Maryland; the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race, Greensboro, N. C. ; the Colored Normal Industrial, Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina, Orangeburg, S. C.; Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia, and West Virginia Colored Institute, at Institute, W. Va.

In general the course of instruction given at these institutions is as follows:

English Language.
Mathematics.

Political Economy.

Domestic Economy-sewing, cooking, household management.

Drawing.

Bookkeeping.

President Janson of the Delaware College gives a course which he calls "Mental and Moral Science."

During the school year of 1905-6 there were 7,663 negro boys and 13,959 negro girls studying industrial branches in these schools.

In the secondary and higher schools for colored people there were 1,730 boys and 177 girls studying professional courses.

Exclusive of the industrial, there were 1,429 male teachers and 2,648 female teachers in the public high and secondary higher schools for colored people.

Including those attending public schools, there were in the Continental United States 1,096,734 negroes attending school during the census year of 1900.