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Show In the building of k roof s he worketl. When the two black hutineis leaped with their whole weight upon the tiny roof Hdge and It held them firm, the audience applauded It knew more about roof building than H had ten minutes before. A tall, graceful colored girl v a iked to a bed on the stage. Quickly removing sheets and blankets, she aired the mattress mat-tress and pillow case, dusted the Iron bedstead and posts and uiade a modrl bed. She explained the wry and when of each movement. H whs an old story to, the thirty-one other girls of her class, j who had made such beds for fmr years.! and who. like her. wore dresses cut and sewed by their own NertaA. simple les- ' son though it was. It will help more than one cabin home In the south. The laying of bricks nod as Qatar, the i cooking of a hreakfust. the Story of a farm demonstration agent, thirty years j out of Hampton and a leader for hstterj schools arid better farnilnK, followed in I quick succession. Then a student toM th story of ttl life. Once a vairnbond outcast. shlfil'-s snd worthless, abandoned when a hoy hf people, he poes hack lo them Ibi" yesr a carpenter, to tear down tlie n!I , cabin In Si tut It Carollnn a nI to build a ! new home for his parents. From the platform followed Hie nie- , sahe of white fn Mack. The thundero'' me'ody f a thousand voices in th old j nearo "splrl"a1s" was followed bv j earnest speeches, full of Mr and sjrlgdoTg gni humor. Sydney TKld Frisscll In tin Surrey. A STRANGE COMMENCEMENT. "Oh, Freedom! Oh, Freedom I over me!" A thousand black singers stood and sang these words; and the melody of their "freedom song" paased across the craves of 3000 northern soldiers. A sea of black faces surrounded a little Soup of white workers and northern leads and peered up at trustees and speakers on the platform at Hampton Institute, the famous school In Virginia for negroes and Indians. Two colored boys climbed the stage before their graduation. They wore no cape nor gowne; they made no attempt to save their race or country by oratory. With the aleevea of their blue work Mouse rolled to the elbow, and wearing the apron of their trade, these young arpnter built the fame of a hip roof for a miniature house In ten minutes One of the workers explained each step |