eful lives. Two hundred fifteen have
either been granted certificates or diplomas, and are engaged as
follows: Fifty are teachers, twenty-five are housekeepers, three of the
teachers have founded schools of their own, one at Laurinburg, N. C.,
one at West Butler, Alabama, and one at Richmond, Alabama.

"Though the majority of the ex-students are located in the Black Belt of
Alabama and are engaged principally in farming, a large number of them
are found in the following states: Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia,
Florida, and the Carolinas."

APPENDIX

ADDRESS DELIVERED BY MR. EDWARDS IN BESSEMER, ALABAMA

"THE SIGNS OF TIMES"

It was customary in ancient times for nations to build walls around
their cities to protect them from the enemy. War was the rule, and peace
the exception. Nations therefore spent most of their time in preparing
for war, as they believed that their advancement depended largely upon
their conquest. Watchmen would be placed here and there on the walls to
keep a sharp look-out for the enemy and when detected, would warn the
inhabitants of his approach. As a result of these warlike times and
military activities, some of the world's greatest generals were produced
during that period.

Undoubtedly, conditions here mentioned, existed because of the poor
methods of transportation and communication that were uncertain during
that day, for since the advent of the steam-engine, telegraph,
telephone, the automobile, and other means of rapid transit, national
lines of demarcation have been becoming less distinct. As nations
communed with nations and understood each other better, they found less
causes for differences and less need of watchmen on the walls.

We cannot help but believe that with a better knowledge of each race by
the other and on the part of each a better understanding of the great
and common end of life, which is to serve and uplift, that racial strife
and conflict will cease and ere long this old world will become the
kingdom of our God.

But these are not ancient times and things that were are not now. The
cities of the plain are no longer separated, for the walls have been
demolished and instead of the watchmen we have the teacher, the preacher
and the politician to tell us the signs of the times.

This is, pre-eminently, a progressive age; an age of going forth; an age
in which things move. With the new and varied inventions of the 19th and
20th Centuries, old customs and c