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Vol. 25. SPELMAN SEMINARY, ATLANTA, GA., APRIL, 1909. No. 7

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EASTER LILIES, and heat, and of the vivifying influences pulpit in churches. Special cakes were O Easter lilies, thy petals speak of spring. ‘At Rome the sacred fire in baked at Easter, of which representatives Of those pearly gates we love, the temple of A"esta was kindled anew still exist in the ‘hot cross buns’ and That enter in from a world of sin every year on the first of March, which ‘simmel cakes’; and brightly-painted eggs To a city of gold above ; used to be the were The tender greens of thy stately stalk, beginning of the Roman presented to friends— a custom yet Of that “green hill far away” year,’ observes Dr. J. G. Fraser. Bon¬ surviving among . Where our Savior died, but, glorified, fires, lit from the flames thus originated The fact that this European spring fes¬ Lives and pleads for us to-day. by the priest on Easter Eve, are still tival synchronized with the Jewish Pass- O sacred lilies, thy message holds burned in many parts of Europe, notably over (itself doubtless owning the same All of life and death to me!; in Germany. remote origin) tended greatly to its mod¬ For our blessed Lord will keep his word, The fires are ification in “Where I am shall pay servant be.” always kindled, year after post-Christian times; and the The cross is ever the wa3T of life, year, on the same hill, which according¬ circumstance that the crucifixion and But e’en while its shadows fall, ly often takes the name of Easter Moun¬ resurrection are distinctly stated to have The gates unfold from that city of gold tain. As far as their reaches, so far, occurred at the passover, Where the risen Lord crowns all. light prepared the in belief of Gena Hudgin Osborne. , the fields will be way for the t.ransformance of the heathen fruitful, and the houses on which they into a Christian festival. The extinction shine will be safe from conflagration or of the old-year fires on Easter Eve was in¬ sickness. As the flames die down, young terpreted as symbolizing the darkness of and old leap over them, and cattle are some¬ Calvary and the grave ; the EASTER. lighting of the times driven through the smouldering new fire signalized the resurrection. Easter, the chief festival of the Chris¬ embers, (Golden Bough, iii. 254), as a The ceremony of ‘burning the Easter tian year, commemorates the resurrec¬ protection against disease. The Easter fire man’ (a straw figure akin to King Carni¬ tion of Christ. As a matter of fact, how¬ of Germany is the Beltane fire of Celtic val), in which no woman, girl, or lad un¬ ever, a religious festival occurring at or Europe, with precisely the same attendant der eighteen was allowed to participate, about the vernal equinox is much older ceremonies and beliefs. Easter was also cel¬ became known as ‘burning the Judas.’ than Christanity. It marked the dawn of ebrated by games, which included songs, At first, the Christian Easter synchron¬ a new year, the end of the reign of win¬ dances, dramatic shows, and (during the ized exactly with the Jewish Passover. ter and the advent of increasing light middle ages) amusing tales told from the This was adhered to by the Eastern SPELMAN MESSENGER.

Church, but was soon rejected in the West on the ground that the resurrection took place on the first day of the week af¬ ter the passover, and ought, therefore, to be commemorated on Sunday. After much bitter controversy the particular Sunday was definitely fixed in the sixth century to be the Sunday between the fif¬ teenth and twenty-first days of the moon in the first month of the Jewish lunar year; and it was directed that the compu¬ tation should be made according to the tables of Victorius of Aquitaine (intro¬ duced in 457 A. D. ). Owing to the fact that Britain bad ceased to be a part of the Roman empire, Easter did not at first af¬ fect the British Church, which continued for exhibition purposes. The forestry thought that many of the visitors to the to be calculated on a basis previously ap¬ building will be entirely complete and Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition will be¬ proved at Rome. But after a century of all exhibits in place thirty days before come extremely interested in the forestry disputation, the matter was finally dispos¬ the exposition opens. school and its work. Although the ed of at the synod held at Whitby, ATork- The exhibit in the forestry building building is to be used this summer by the shire, in 664; after which date the church will be complete in every detail. There Exposition to be held on the campus at of the British Isles conformed to the gener¬ will be a comprehensive display of tim¬ Seattle from June to October, the struct¬ al practice of the western church. Eas¬ bers of various kinds, showing the logs ure was designed so as to be of use es¬ ter is now observed by the Roman Cath¬ just as they leave the forest besides sec¬ pecially fora laboratory where the science olic and Protestant churches on the first tions of the big timbers. The various of forestry may be studied. With this Sunday after-full moon on or after March kinds of woods in a finished condition end in view all the latest apparatus has 21, and thus cannot be earlier than March will also be displayed and there will be been installed and the building made 22, or later than April 25. many samples showing flooring, paneling, complete in every way. Nelson’s Encyclopedia. ceiling workand other uses to which wood What could be more appropriate than a is put to decorate the interior of residence building made of logs and native lumber and office buildings. in all the stages of preparation, from the In connection with the forestry exhibit rough to the highly polished interior fin¬ at the exposition will be the timber test¬ ish, in which the very surroundings will ing plant located in the machinery hall be a huge laboratory for the study of the THE FORESTRY BUILDING, ALASKA- adjoining the forestry building. During various kinds of woods? Progress on this YUKON-PACIFIC EXPOSITION. the progress of the exposition timbers of building is being observed with greater The forestry building at the Alaska- every kind and all sizes will be tested to interest, perhaps, than any other. Seen Yukon-Pacific Exposition will be one of the breaking point. This will be one of from a distance, as one approaches, the the most striking structures on the the most instructive demonstrations at columns forcibly remind one of the pict¬ grounds and will be a city block inlength. the exposition and will be of interest to ures one used to study in ancient his¬ At the close of the exposition this build¬ the builders from every part of the coun¬ tories of the Egytian temples in the val¬ ing will revert to the University, and try who attend the Seattle exposition. ley of the Nile. Washington’s seat of learning will be the The school of forestry at the University No doubt the completed building will only educational institution in the world of Washington is comparatively young, be one of the most interesting on the Ex¬ having a building of that character for use but one year and a half old, but forestry position grounds and deservedly so, since of students taking a forestry course. The as a separate study was taught for some it represents one of the greatest and most forestry building is one of the largest log years before the Forestry School was es¬ picturesque industries of the state. houses ever built. tablished. Dept, of Publicity. The building has a frontage of 320 feet Although the percentage of pupils reg¬ and in width is 144 feet. About the front istering in forestry is small as yet, the of the building will be 124 logs each forty increase on the opening of the second feet high, 5 feet in diameter, 6,000 feet in year was remarkable and the school, being board measure. The weight of each log located in such a large lumbering district, is estimated at 50,000 pounds. The logs has a very bright future ahead of it. THE INDIANS AND THEIR PASSION used on the exterior of the building will The degrees to be obtained from the PLAY. school are Bachelor of Science in be left in the rough, while those used in Forestry Picturesquely beautiful was the setting the interior will have the bark removed. in a four years course and Master of Forest¬ for the Indian Passion Play, “Hiawatha,” Fir, hemlock, cedar, and spruce will be ry in a six years course. It is expected enacted on a forest stage at Fairview Park, that the used in the building, which will be com¬ completion of the new building in Indianapolis, by a band of real Indians posed entirely of products of the State of will increase the enrollment remarkably. in native garb, who delighted with their With the facilities which Washington. will be secured pantomime and their native speech and in the new At each end of the building is a tower building, the efficiency of the song, the large crowd of spectators that school will be doubled. In fact when built of smaller logs reached by a spiral the covered the green hillside sloping to the stairway. The building will have a balcony new building is opened this summer, it is canal at the northwest corner of the park. SPELMAN MESSENGER. 3

r Between the stage, built back from the ers, to whom the performance is as solemn The wise men selected Iagoo as teache towpath into a veritable tangle of woods,' as the Passion Play is to the peasant-actors of little Hiawatha and celebrated his com¬ and the audience, seated in tiers on the of Oberammergau, as a means of present¬ ing with ceremonial songs and dances. steep incline, was the canal on which ing the legends, myths, and customs of the Not fully realizing the meaning of his danced numerous birch-canoes used by the North American Indian in a concrete coming, they began with a very fierce Indians in reaching the wigwam of Hia¬ dramatic form. And Hiawatha, as pre¬ dance, but by the magic influence of Hi¬ watha and the tepee of Iagoo, which were sented by his company, is an authentic awatha the music was stopped ; the dance on opposite sides of the stage. From a reproduction of Indian folklore. was not finished, but they immediately point high up the hillside, a search-light After the “Introduction” was read, the began one of their most sacred ceremonial furnished illumination. So realistic was Indian came to the platform and dramat¬ dances. the production thatthe screech of an owl ically presented “The Peace-Pipe” as the Gat-noo-goi, who played the part of in a neighboring tree and the croaking opening scene. Iagoo the “traveler and boaster,” is a Sene¬ of numerous frogs in the bottoms below Gitche Manito, the Great Spirit, is dis¬ ca Indian, and a fine specimen of his race- seemed a part of the play. pleased and lights a signal fire on the top As a maker of hickory and black ash Eight tribes were represented in a band of his dwelling, summoning all the tribes bows and white oak arrows, it is said, he of more than fifty Indians that presented together. He commands them to cease has few equals and perhaps no superior. Among his own people, Gat-noo-goi is a preacher or teacher, and is full of the wisdom of his father. He holds fast to

the faith that came down to him from the

first of his race. For this he collects no tithes, but gives his services to his people, as did his ancestor. His part in the play, singularly enough, was that of his own in real life. He wastheone selected to train the young prophet, Hiawatha, howto shoot the arrow and how to dance the nation’s dance. He taught him the t ribal traditions, the ballads, and the legends—the folklore of his people. When Hiawatha was five years old, Iagoo gave him his first lesson in shooting and Hiawatha. Although a platform was warring and promises a deliverer to guide dancing. The warriors celebrated the erected on the bank of the canal for the and teach them. fact that he had learned to shoot and to dances and other ceremonies, the Indians “I will send a Prophet to you, dance in one of their ceremonial dances, A Deliverer of the nations, in which Hiawatha wras carried on the roamed up and down the bank and through Who shall guide you, and shall teach you. the woods in the shoulders of the most powerful Indian in performance of the play, If you listen to his counsels the tribe as a thus giving it a touch of realism that was You will multiply and prosper; post of honor. weirdly impressive. If his warnings pass unheeded During the boyhood of Hiawatha, he You will fade away and perish !” Throughout the action, which lasted an was instructed in the wonders of the skies, The warriors, satisfied with the promis¬ the hour and a half, the story was retold in language of the birds and the beasts, es, weapons, off threw down their washed and all the mysteries of nature. When Longfellow’s language by Clinton E. Lloyd, their war-paint, and gathered around the he the only white participant, who con¬ reached the age of eighteen, he went stood ceremonial fire. cealed in a cluster of foliage. In clear jnto the forest to observe the customary When Gitche Manito saw their willing¬ and pleasing tones he read the poem as the fast, and came out a young man in full ness to comply with his request, he broke Indians on the forest stage presented the standing. a piece of red pipe-stone from his dwel¬ scenes which depicted the boyhood and Wah-taw-deh, tall and stately, the Hi¬ ling place and formed it into a peace-pipe. the manhood of Hiawatha, his wooing of awatha of the play, was the finest looking This he gave to the chief, who lighted it the beautiful Minnehaha, the death of the Indian in the company. He played his at the council fire and gave it to the part admirably in every detail, and he was young Indian bride, the arrival of the warriors. ‘ ‘Black-Robe Chief, the Pale-face,” and the greatly admired by the audience. While sitting around the ceremonial departure of the grief-stricken Prophet. Dramatic action seemed to be implanted fire, they discussed the words of wisdom in him. Flis Strangely real was the presentation, and gallant bearing, broad epic spoken by the Great Spirit, and awaited periods of high dramatic interest were sweep of gesture, and certain precision of the coming of the prophet. reached, particularly when famine and movement in all his actions, were in fine None of the warriors had any idea that fever were robbing Hiawatha of his Min¬ harmony with the presentation of lofty Nokomis knew anything of the prophet; nehaha, and when the young Prophet, thought and heroic poetry. and they were much surprised when she broken by grief, departed for the “land of In the fourth scene, Hiawatha, by ges¬ walked out of her wigwam, bearing in her the Hereafter,” while the chiefs of the ture and native speech, told Nokomis of arms the little Hiawatha in his linden his tribes and the squaws and papooses stood intention to visit the Arrow-maker cradle. She sang to him a lullaby “hun¬ and his at the water’s edge and sorrowfully daughter. Nokomis urged him to dreds of years : old” wed a maiden of his people ; watched him, standing erect canoe, “ but Hiawatha in his ‘Hush ! the Naked Bear will hear thee!’ departed for the land of the Dacotahsand disappear in the darkness. Lulled him into slumber singing. the Mr. F. E. Moore, the general manager ‘Ewa-yea! my little owlet! wigwam of the Arrow-maker. (The Who is this that lights the wigwam ? Arrow-maker’s tent was erected in the of the play, said that Longfellow’s immor¬ v\ ith his great eyes lights the wigwam? Continued on tal poem was dramatized for Indian play¬ Ewa-yea ! my little owlet!’ ” page 7. 4 SPELMAN MESSENGER.

SPELMAN MESSENGER. BIRTHDAY RALLY. Ezra was rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem —it was all I could do to keep silence. Spelman’s 28thbirthday comes this year Miss E. O. Werden, Editor and Publisher. God bless you and your work! Set my on Easter Sunday. The usual holiday church down as one who will come to your will be given Easter Monday. ATLANTA, GA., APRIL, 1909. rescue. You write to the church any On Tuesday morning at 8 : 30 there will time you want help. I am a friend to Published be a grand rally in the chapel, when en¬ monthly, during the school Spelman. God’s blessing abide with it! j ear, for by members of Spelman Seminary. velopes containing gifts the school W. F. Iw”Tkrms : 25 cts. Tarver, pastor Simmon Hill Bapt. Ch. per year, in advance; will be brought in, and the names of »mgle copies, 5 cents. churches, schools, and friends who are Dixie, Brooks Co., Ga., March 7, 1909. Club Rates : Ten copies, one year, $2.00. Dear Sister : Advertising rates will be furnished contributing to the debt will be public¬ on application. ly announced. All friends who have not Inclosed please find a money order for To introduce the paper we will send it yet carried out their intention of helping $16.60, the collection which The Simmon on trial to new subscribers two months. Hill us are invited to send or bring an offer¬ Baptist Church collected for Spelman Subscribers wishing to introduce the Messenger to their friends can have speci¬ ing. —Harriet E. Giles. Seminary, in answer to your request to men copies sent free from this office to Deacon Dempsey Wooten. Let me re¬ any address. assure you that this is a freewill offering. Subscribers asking to have the direction I was master of ceremonies this morning. of a paper to changed should be careful Those five leaflets made a very interesting name not only the post-office to which they —Besides the inspiration received by program. exer¬ wish it sent, but also the one to which it The audience enjoyed the those teachers who found it possible to lias been sent. cise. May you, Miss Harriet E. Giles, live attend the Tabernacle Bible Conference— Letters concerning subscriptions should long to carry forth the work that is vitaliz¬ be and it was addressed to inspiring—Spelman Seminary ing Christian character in the women and Spelman was cheered and Messenger, encouraged by visits from girls of my race! Mrs. Hancock joins me Atlanta, Ga. some of the conference workers. On Sun¬ in tendering regards to you, and to all who day night, March 14, Miss E. Stafford Mil¬ Entered at the Post- Office at Atlanta, Ga., might ask of us. I send you a list of those lar of Melbourne, Australia, addressed the who as second class matter. gave twenty-five cents and upward school in her own way. happy On Wednes¬ in the collection. You may publish them day morning, March 17, Rev. S. T. Gordon in the Spelman Messenger, if you see fit. was with us at devotions and spoke right Respectfully, J. T. Hancock. to our hearts ; and on Sunday afternoon, LIST OF THE NAMES OF PERSONS WHO GAVE Rev. Mr. Judd of England talked to us 25 CENTS AND MORE. of Corea. We are There's a singing of grateful for all these Prof. J. T. Hancock, $1.25 summer Dea. Dempsey In bird, privileges. Wooten, $1.25 beast, and Rev. AY. F. Tarver, tree; —On Thursday evening, March 18, pastor, $1,25 And a note that’s res¬ Dea. J. E. Leonard, .50 ponsive Miss Kate E. Driscoll, missionary to Sou¬ Dea. E. K. In Sirmon, .50 you and in me. Rev. AY. E. Dame Nature is spread¬ dan, told us of the people and needs of that Tillman,' .25 ing darkest corner of the dark continent. Dea. G. AAr. Spencer, Sr, .25 O’er mountain and Bro. G. Strickland, .25 plain —On Saturday evening, March 20, Dr. Bro. E. M. Her glad Easter story, Spencer, .25 “We’re living again!” Sale gave an illustrated talk on ourschools Bro. AV. M. Hollis, .25 And our hearts hear and what Bro. Peter Wilson, .50 an echo— they should do for the people. A strain in accord— Bro. William Travis, .25 Ye, too, may live also —Tuesday evening, the 23rd, brought to Sister Mary E. Hancock, .50 With your risen Lord. our chapel the LaDell-Fox Concert Com¬ Bro. A. Bacon, .25 ’Tis a wonderful word, Bro. John That we worms of the pany of Canada. It is needless to say that McQuay, .35 dust Bro. AV. H. Tomlingson, .25 this was a rare treat and greatly enjoyed. May greet him in glo¬ Bro. L. M. Morrison, .25 ry, —On Sister Shellie May live with the just! Friday night, March 26, we listened Ilollis, :25 O Bro. John glorious gospel! to an Allen, .25 The appreciative and appreciated lecture winter of sin Bro. Neal Carnegie, .25 Can hold us no longer! on Sidney Lanier by Dr. JohnE. AYhite of He knocks! Miss Eva Rogers, .25 the Let him in ! Second Baptist Church of thiscity. Miss Mary E. Spencer, .25 E. 0. W. Sister Amanda CT, —The King’s Messengers held their Frasier, .25 Bro. G. C. Wooten, .25 monthly meeting on Sunday evening, the Bro. Aaron AYooten, .25 28th. The chief religions of the world were Bro. David Bell, .25 considered. Bro. A. Gosier, .25 Bro. Oliver Spencer .25 —TheSimmonHill Baptist church sends ANNOUNCEMENT OF CLOSING Total amount raised $16.60 EXERCISES. a donation of $16.60 for our Fund, with the E. K. Sirmon, C. C. following letters. We are pleased to note Rev. AY. F. Tarver, pastor. Sermon before Societies, 3 p. m., 2 J. T. May the names of several former students in Hancock, master of ceremonies. By Dr. John E. White, Atlanta, Ga. the list. —111 our next issue we shall Commencement Sermon, “ May 16 give fur¬ Quitman, Ga., March 10, 1909. ther names of donors. By Dr. Geo. B. Cutten, Columbus, 0. Dear Miss Giles : —On Class Day Exercises, 2 p. m., May 17 Sunday afternoon, March 28, Mr. I was really glad to have the Faddoul Business Meeting, Alumnae Ass’n, privilege Moghabghab, a native Syrian, in of 6 p. in., May 18 helping so worthy a cause. I rejoiced shepherd’s dress, illuminated for us the Public Meeting, Alumnae Ass’n, Sunday with tears in my eyes to see what Shepherd’s Psalm and other Bible refer¬ 7.30 the Lord has ences. His p. m., May 18 wrought through you and niece and her husband per¬ Commencement 10 a. m., Miss Packard. I was like Israel when sonated an May 19 Eastern bride and groom, SPELMAN MESSENGER. 5

take a racial pride in preserving their lan¬ his thought to conquer by love, by prayer, and guage from oblivion through the use of by the giving of lives. it in their church life. Although most of In 1291, Lull went to the Moslems in the adults read English, they prefer to Africa. It was a dangerous undertaking, use their Bibles in their tribal tongues. but he wished to meet the leaders of Islam Often the translator has had to create face to face. In Tunis he called a con¬ words as well as alphabets. How shall ference. He would listen to their argu¬ the dweller in some low-lying knoll know ments for Islam; they would hear his the word mountain ? How write‘Lamb for Christianity. They consented. So of God’for Eskimos, who know no lambs? powerful were his arguments, they feared his influence and cast him in THE BIBLE IN STRANGE TONGUES. ‘Little seal,’ the translator had to put it at prison,—a last. ‘Bad to eat’ was as near as the trans¬ fine compliment, but not well given. Set The Bible exists in five hundred lan¬ lator into Mosquito could get to sin. ‘Nice free, he made other missionary journeys. guages. At the beginning of the last cen¬ smell’ had to serve as native Australian Through Lull’s influence professorships tury it existed only in fifty, the product for frankincense. In Uganda the trans¬ of Oriental languages were established in of eighteen previous centuries. In some lator had to wait five years before he could leading universities, thus laying the cases it is the means of creating the first catch a word that meant plague. Then foundation for future missionary work. written forms of a language, and in others After a life of hard one day he heard a man bewailing the in¬ work, at the age of the only method of preserving them. flux of rats, such a ‘didebu’ they were. seventy-nine he felt that he must “carry The American Bible the war into Society has complet¬ Out came the note-book, down went the Africa” again, so in 1314 he ed the publication of the Bible in Cham¬ long sought word. returned to Bugia, whence he had been orro, the chief language of the Island of — The Ontario Churchman. banished, and, after teaching secretly for Guam. Thus the natives get their first a year, showed himself in the open mar¬ printed book, their first alphabet, a writ¬ ket, where he was recognized and given ten language, and a literature all in one. Stephen’s martyrdom. He was buried in All over the world Bible translators are his church of San Francisco, where doing the same thing. Last year, for in¬ an elaborate tomb marks his resting place, stance, the society printed a Bible for RAYMOND LULL, and a heroic statue stands to his honor. Pleasant a Island, mere dot in the Pacific, ‘•He who loves not lives not; Raymond Lull was far in advanee of his 300 miles south of the Caroline Islands, He who lives by the Life cannot die.” age. He declared against asceticism. witli a population of 1,500, the sort of is¬ This was the motto of Raymond Lull, Fie left many writings on general arts, land one reads about in shipwreck stories. the first missionary to the Moslems. philosophy, medicine, theology, etc. ;with For ten years one lone missionary and Raymond Lull was born 1235, in Palma, great foresight he founded schools for his wife have been living there. He learned a pretty town on Majorca, one of the Bal¬ missionary training; he developed the the earic language by ear and then set it on islands, off the east coast of Spain. high ideal of winning to Christ by love ; paper phonetically. Then he translated Some of his ancestors had been Crusad¬ and he gave himself for Love’s sake. He the New Testament into it. Then he en¬ ers and his family were wealthy and of is considered“the most remarkable figure treated the Bible Society to publish his high position, so he grew up with knight¬ of the Middle Ages.”—A1. O. W. Bible. The society replied : “We can’t ly notions and good advantages. He was afford to publish the Bible in a language court poet, musician, and a gay knight. spoken by only 1,500 people.” Then the When about thirty years of age, while tribe pledged itself to pay for the work composing a poem in honor of a fair lady, if it could have time. So the society sent he suddenly saw a vision of the Savior GRADUATES’ CORNER. the missionary a printing press, and he hanging on the cross. He was deeply and his native moved and could write no more. A few helpers set up and printed Florida ! What does the word suggest ? the work. Then he sent it to San Fran¬ days later, attempting to finish the song, A land of summer pleasure, while ice and the vision cisco, the society paid for binding it, and again appeared. He felt this snow reign in the north ? The St. Johns one more little South Sea island has a was a special call to him to devote himself and the Suwanee river ? Old St. Augus¬ written to Christ’s service. All his sins and follies tine and language and literature. new Daytona ? Mocking-birds as rose before him and it was Philologists of the future will study ex¬ some time be¬ tame as robins ? Alligators and pelicans tinct fore he found languages by means of these Bibles. peace. and fish ? Orange groves and palmettos, When the light came he decided that he and Already it is said Mme. Matteo de Tur¬ spreading live oaks draped in grey was called to the conversion ner’s version of the Gospels in Quichuea of the Ma¬ hanging moss? To Spelman Seminary is the hometans, and to this work he consecrated only key to the language of the In¬ Florida means much more than these ; it his life. “To cas. In many cases the Bible is all that will gain a knowledge of Arabic, means an investment in human lives, for he preserve native American languagesfrom purchased a Saracen slave, and for nine Florida is the home of fifteen Spelman extinction. Lastyear the society published years studied, wrote, and in every way graduates and of many other students. the four prepared for service.” The Mahometan Late in gospels in the Winnebago tongue. February I started, in company leaders are learned ; he wished to be able There are only 2,000 Winnebagos left. with Miss Hardy, the secretary of the Their children are learning to read Eng¬ to demonstrate the of superiority Chris¬ school, on a trip to Florida for the pur¬ lish. In another generation the tribe will tianity by argument. pose of visiting these Spelman girls. Then he started the first be extinct or assimilated. But some one missionary To our regret the distances to be trav¬ as saw a mission¬ offered to pay for the work for the sake training school, lie that ersed did not permit us to reach Pensa¬ of a few old Indians never ary must know the country and cola on the who will learn language extreme west of the state, of the to people whom he would teach . To nor Palm Beach on read English. Down in Oklahoma tha the south-east coast, this he added medical rich Indians, the Cherokees and Choctaws, training. It was where are Mrs. Martha Ragland Abbott, G I SPELMAN MESSENGER.

II. S. ’93, and Miss Alice Frederick, 11. S. students, keep house near Ibor City, one ’07; but Jacksonville, Fernandina, Palat- of the suburbs of Tampa. Airs. Armwood Rensselaer \ ka, Gainesville, Ocala, Tampa, Lakeland, notified them of our presence in the city, -q DeLand,and Live Oak could be brought in¬ and they were all at the railway station PolytechnicX% to one itinerary, and in them were to be the next morning. Institute, found the other people whom we hoped to At the invitation of Airs. Brown, a see. large company of friends had assembled \ Troy, N.Y. Local examinations provided for. Send for a catalogue. We were greeted with genuine glad¬ at the public school in Lakeland to hear ness. Comfort and refinement wTere in the lady from Spelman speak. 1 received the homes that were seen by us, and or¬ the Chautauqua salute. The principal and der and earnestness in the schools that his assistants are doing faithful work. ATLANTA BAPTIST we were invited to address. We were Airs. Brown asked for help in a contribu¬ proud of every Spelman girl we met, and tion towards our debt and the result was COLLEGE we rejoiced in her work. a willing impromptu collection of $3.50 ATLANTA GEORGIA. At Palatka we saw Airs. Rosalie Mat¬ for Spelman from the Lakeland school. thew’s Graham, H. S. ’92, and her four pret¬ Florida has two Baptist schools in the FOR YOUNG MEN AND ty children ; at Gainesville, Airs. Alattie northern part of the state, at Live Oak Duval Days, H. S. ’96, and dear little and at Jacksonville. The south Florida COURSES OF STUDY:— Claudia; and in Lakeland, Airs. Minnie association, comprising ninety churches, Lee Thomas Brown, H. S. ’97, and the two of which Rev. Brown is missionary, is Preparatory, boys and their baby sister, Thelma Bar¬ planning for a school at Lakeland, and Normal, Scientific and Classical, rett, who is just toddling about, running is now ready to build upon land which over with animation and glee. These they have bought in a desirable location. Theological, mothers have been school teachers since It was a bright morning and the mock¬ College. their marriage, but at present are devot¬ ing-birds were singing gaily when we ap¬ For Catalogue and Information, ing themselves to family duties. We were proached the Florida Baptist Academy at write to happy to meet in Gainesville the hus¬ Jacksonville. The school owns a large band, mother, brother, and sister-in-law tract of land in the suburbs, and several John Hope, B A., of Airs. Days. Air. Days is a mail-carrier. excellent buildings. It was Saturday, and President. Tw’o of our graduates, Aliss Anica Alur- the boarders were making the usual week¬ end ray, H. S. ’97, and Airs. WylmaGibbs AIc- preparation for Sunday. We could Duffy, T. P. C. ’03, are teaching in How- not see the class-room wrork, but we were SPELMAN SEMINARY ard Academy, the public school of Ocala. shown over the entire campus, and met We were present at the chapel exer¬ Aliss Blocker, the preceptress, and several ATLANTA GEORGIA. cises, and were introduced to the able of the teachers, among whom is Aliss Han¬ principal and his corps of teachers, and to nah Buchanan, T. P. C. ’08. Miss Buchanan A CHRISTIAN HOME SCHOOL four or five hundred children. We w’ere is thoroughly enjoying her teaching. FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS interested in “current events” as given Live Oak now contains no Spelmanite, but a legacy of Spelman ways from noble by the pupils, in their sweet singing, and DEPARTMENTS OF INSTRUCTION. in their good marching. We afterwards Spelman girls who have labored faithful¬ called upon Aliss Anica’s mother, and ly there in past years seemed to us dis¬ Elementary, Cooking, cernible. A brother of Aliss Ida upon Airs. Bryant, the mother of Mrs. Grimes, High School, Laundry Work, Hattie Bryant Hampton, H. S. ’93, who T. P. C. ’06, is one of the professors. College, Sewing and Dress-making. is now living in Paris, Tex., where Among the students are sisters of Aliss Christian Workers, Printing, her husband is pastor of a church. Airs. Senta Whitehurst, C. AY. ’97, who is in an Teachers Professional, Nursing the Sick, A-’ocal and Instrumental Bryant says that her daughter is plan¬ orphanage at Gilmer, Tex. Their home is Music, Basketry, ning to send tw’o of her children to Spel¬ near Live Oak and the Suwanee riv¬ Typewriting, Millinery man soon. It seems to be the general er. Another graduate, Airs. Annie Fitz- hope of our graduates to have their Giles Manker, C. AY. ’97, has a pretty TERMS. home set in a pretty little garden, not far daughters educated in their Alma Mater. Board per four weeks, $9.50 When in Tampa I called at Harlem from the school. Her husband is a suc¬ Organ Lessons per four weeks, 2.00 Academy, the public school, expecting cessful physician. We spent several hours Piano Lessons per four weeks, 3.00 to see Aliss Blanche Armwood, H. S. ’06. in Live Oak, dining at the school, and ad¬ Books sold at reduced prices. She wTas on leave of absence for a week, dressing the older students in the chapel Bills payable in advance for each four having gone to Washington to the in¬ and the primary department in their weeks. Discount of six per cent, for pay¬ auguration. We had the pleasure, how- building. The efficient matron, Airs. Al¬ ment for entire year in advance. ever, of finding there Aliss Charlotte Bry¬ ston, is from Virginia, and a graduate of Shaw ant, who has been teaching in this same University. Prof. Jones, the presi¬ Street cars run every ten minutes, from Mari¬ school fifteen years, and sisters of Aliss dent, was travelling on the east coast in etta St., directly to the Seminary. Amelia Ambrose and of Alisses Mattie and the interest of his school. President Col¬ For catalogues and further information Candace Brumick, former Spelman stu¬ lier and Mr. Sidney AVoodward with a address dents. quartette were in the same tourist haunt¬ Miss Harriet E. Giles, President. We then sought Airs. Armwood’s house. ed region, raising money for the Jackson¬ She was . Her ville school. daughter, Airs. other in DeLand. In the former we at¬ Idella Street, and her sister, Airs. Annie It was possible for us to arrange to tended morning service at the Presbyter¬ Holloman Poree, w ho were once Spelman spend a Sunday in St. Augustine and an- ian church, a stately memorial to the SPELMAN MESSENGER. 7

daughter of Mr. Flagler, the builder of spite of showers, we enjoyed a drive] [put up his nephew, Eace-in-a-mist. Pau- the famous Ponce de Leon hotel, and in through the attractive town, which is the! Puk-Keewis won the boy and made him the latter we heard an earnest sermon seat of the State University. In Lakeland his slave, and the marriage festivities were from Dr. Hulley, the president of Stetson and DeLand we had fine rides among broken up. University, at the vesper service in the orange and grape-fruit groves. While in- jkJWhen Pliawatha came and found the auditorium of the University, a room Jacksonville, we were driven by Miss people in confusion, he reprimanded Pau- whieh is a memorial to a son of Mr. Stet¬ Blocker along streets lined with new Puk-Keewis severely for his mischief¬ son, the founder of the University. De- business blocks, public buildings, and making. Then Hiawatha took the war¬ Land charmed us with its streets over¬ dwelling-houses that have arisen from riors into the forest on a hunting arched with live oaks, which were put¬ the ashes of the great fire. At Ocala, Air. expedition. ting on their bright spring growth, and and Airs. AlcDuffy carried us five miles As soon as they were out of sight, Pau- paved with brown leaves that had just into the country, past turpentine farms Puk-Keewis came and began to taunt fallen. Spring and autumn met. There and under the drooping moss of a “lover’s Alinnehaha at the door of the wigwam of had been no winter. lane,” to Silver Spring, a wonderful, Nokomis. Nokomis grew tired of his We found Miss Wilhelmenia Johnson, tiny lake fed by springs whose bubbling mischief-making and threatened him. He II. S. and ’91, at DeLand. She took us to the boiling from lime-stone rocks twenty laughed at her, and she called for the to Sunday-school in which she had a class of eighty feet below the surface is seen warriors, who came to her aid. Pau-Puk- boys gathered by herself from the streets. through the clear water as one is rowed Keewis realized for the first time in his There we met an educated about in a pastor, an up- glass-bottomed boat. Steamers life what it was to be without friends, and to-date superintendent, and the parents of on the Oklawaha, which is fed in part by took refuge in the dwelling place of Gitche two girls now in Spelman. One of the this spring, start for Palatka from the Alanito. latter has been converted and Silver baptized Spring wharf. The warriors were about to kill him since The St. Johns coming to Atlanta. We called at river, Fort Alarion at when Hiawatha came and saved his life. their homes. On Monday morning we St. Augustine, and the ostriches at the Pau-Puk-Keewis appreciated what had Jacksonville visited the public school in which Miss ostrich farm interested us, been done for him and vowed friendship. Johnson but our taught last year. At present coming and going was nothing to Pie gave up the war club that had been the she is them. There making a good income by doing are, however, people in cause of so much trouble, and danced the manicure, and shampoo Florida to whom our visit meant some¬ chiropodist, dance of repentance, a dance seldom seen work for the ladies of the two large hotels, thing, and to see whom meant some¬ by white people. In this dance he begged a position for which she received training thing to us. AYe are very glad we went. the forgiveness of his enemies and im¬ in Chicago. Her mother is living in Tam¬ Run,/ H. Upton. plored the help of the Great Spirit. pa with her married daughter, Julia. The fifth scene was the saddest ar.d one Mention must be made of some other Continued from page 3. of the most dramatic. Famine and Fever, students of long ago. Airs. Mattie McTier forest a short distance from the platform. dressed in white, came in and sat by Alin¬ Simmons of Ocala was at the school A spot-light illuminated the tent and left nehaha until she died. house to hear us. Mrs. Lillian Roberts the platform and the surrounding woods in When Hiawatha came in from hunting Daniels and her husband, learning of our darkness.) and found his beautiful Alinnehaha lying presence, were at the station in Tampa to AVhen Hiawatha arrived atthe wigwam, cold in death, “he sat down still and speech¬ see us off. Mrs. Rilla Brittain Brown was he found the Arrow-maker and his beau¬ less” and covered his face with his hands. on the lookout for us at Palatka. Mrs. tiful Minnie Lee Lutor of Bartow travelled daughter, Alinnehaha, sitting at the They buried Alinnehaha according to doorway. Indian burial customs. fourteen miles They warmly welcomed Hia¬ by rail, and was on the watha and gave him food to eat and water , The closing scene depicted the coming of Lakeland platform when we arrived, with to drink. Then followed Hiawatha’s woo¬ the “Black-liobe Chief” and the depart¬ flowers from her garden and a little gift ing and the departure for the wigwam of ure of Hiawatha. of her own handiwork. Nokomis, in the land of the Ojibways; The Black-Robe Chief of the play was Last to be described, but first in point of leaving the Arrow-maker, lonely at the Air. Clinton E. Lloyd robed in black. As time, was a trip from Jacksonville, the door of his wigwam, to meditate upon his he came into view, he was standing erect gateway of the state, to Eernandina, thir¬ loss. in the center of a swiftly gliding canoe, ty miles to the north-east. This is the Nokomis decorated her wigwam for the manned by two home of theDeLanys. Aliss Emma, H. S. Indians, and holding aloft wedding festivities, and sent invitations a cross. He stepped to the platform and ’94, was away working for her beloved to all the tribes. Nokomis and the guests recited, with great solemnity, Longfellow’s Africa, as is the case the greater part of welcomed Hiawatha and Minnehaha, and language describing the the time. Mrs. DeLany and Aliss Annie, message and mis¬ began with the wedding sion of the “Black-Robe Chief”, the H. S. ’94, entertained us delightfully. For¬ dance. As all the nations were represent “Priest of Prayer.” mer students and relatives of present ed, so warriors of different tribes were The grandest act of the little drama was students called upon us; a neat grocery called upon to take part in the festivities. the departure of Hiawatha. store and adjoining room for a private Alany songs and dances were introduced. After addressing Nokomis and the war¬ school, both kept by Miss Annie, were in¬ Pau-Puk-Keewis was asked to dance the riors and telling them of his long absence spected (the children had been given a about to “Beggar’s Dance.” begin, he strode down to the canoe, holiday) ; the Methodist minister, an old “Dance for us your merry dances, paddle in hand, pushed it off and stood friend of the family, was invited to din¬ Dance the Beggar’s dance to please us.” erect in its center and waved adieu to all, ner ; and a lovely drive was taken to the Sah-goo-non-dah-no, a large Indian of while the canoe moved away swiftly and Old Town, where the Eernandina pilots considerable importance, was the singer mysteriously, without paddle or oar, along live, and then to the sea-beach with its low in the play and took the part of Chibiabos. the pathway of the setting sun. grass-dotted sand dunes cutting off a ‘‘Then they said to Chibiabos, Anna Suter. sight of the town, its white-crested line To the friend of Hiawatha, of breakers, its invigorating breezes, its To the sweetest of all singers, To the best of all musicians, TEACHERS’ COLUAIN. jetty at one end, whence we looked across ‘Sing to us, O Chibiabos! Noble art is the channels to Cumberland Island, and Songs of love and songs of longing, nothing less than the ex¬ its eighteen unbroken miles of hard white That the feast may be more joyous, pression of a great soul.—Ruskin. And our guests be more contented.’ ” sand, into which the carriage wheels did “Few people know how much they must The festivities concluded with a war not sink, and upon which the horses’hoofs know in order to know how little they rang as if upon a pavement. dance, in which all of the Indians took part. know.” Pau-Puk-Keewis, the villain in the play, comes to us unsought while Knowledge is proud that he has learnt resolved that he would break up the we are “in the way.” The crowning joy so much; of marriage festivities. Plis plan was to en¬ the trip was in its reunion with our Wisdom is humble that he knows no heart children, and the knowledge of their gage the warriors in the gambling game of “Bowl and more.—Cotvper. love for Spelman, and of their usefulness Counters,” which, after “Knowledge comes by eyes in the world. Yet every where we received many difficulties, he succeeded in doing. always open and working hands, and there is no knowl¬ courtesies that filled the hours with pit ns- Iagoo, supposed to be the "best man, was the one who edge that is not power.” ure. The skies smiled upon us except for a yielded to the temptation, lost all the risks and in his “It is better to form few hours in Gainesville. Even there, in desperation than to reform.” PLEASE PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS.

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