officers. Including the class that graduated
last term, thirty-seven have finished the course. All are living but
one. No charge of criminal wrong-doing has been brought against even one
of them. One of the young women is married to the head teacher, another
to the superintendent of industries, and seven other graduates are
employed in responsible positions by the school. One of these has taken
a special course at Harvard University, three have taken additional
courses at Tuskegee, one is in charge of the woman's department of a
large school in Mississippi, two have founded schools of their own, one
at Tilden, Ala., the other at Greensboro, Ala. All have remained in the
country among the masses whom they are helping to uplift, and most of
them in Wilcox County, the county in which the school is located. Of the
thirty-seven graduates, twenty-seven own their own homes. Aside from the
graduates, about five hundred others have been under the influence of
the school for a longer or shorter period; many of these are making
exceptionally good records.

The growth on the part of the people has kept corresponding pace with
the growth of the institution. The farmers, who ten years ago depended
wholly on the landlords for food supplies, have grown to be independent,
raising most of their own supplies. They are rapidly passing from the
renters' class to the owners' class; they are possessing themselves of
the soil. This may be seen from the fact that ten years ago they owned
in this county but twenty acres of land; to-day they own 4,000 acres of
land. Many of the most prosperous farmers have opened bank-accounts. The
people no longer oppose industrial education; they now refuse to send
their children to any school where they can not secure some industrial
education.

For our part we find it wholly impossible to accommodate all who come to
us from time to time to take the trades' instruction. The churches
hereabout have been revived, new and better schoolhouses have been
built, and the county school terms extended in many cases from two and
three to five and six months; competent teachers and preachers, both
intellectually and morally, have been employed. Crime and immorality are
being uprooted, and virtue and civic righteousness are being planted in
their stead. The commercial and economic conditions have improved in
every way, and there was never a more cordial relation existing between
the races in this section than now. With t