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little cabin school, I grew so interested in these neglected children
and the renters living near by that I would ride horseback for
miles, sometimes staying for dinner in their humble but hospitable
homes.
"I started four other schools in different parts of the county.
But after a year's experience, I realized that the real need of
these, our own American people, was to have an industrial school
where they could be taught farming, shop work, cooking, dairy
ing and sanitation for grounds and homes, and where they could
come under the influence of trained and consecrated men and
women.
"In 1902 I deeded a place that my father had given me to a
board of trustees, planning to use this place for a school for boys
who lived in remote rural districts and mountains where there
were no nine months' schools and who were too poor to be sent off
to school. I put up a dormitory and with only a little white
washed school house we opened school with five boys.
"The Berry School was incorporated under the laws of the
State of Georgia, the property to be held in trust by its board of
trustees. I had gone so far into my means that there was noth
ing left for me to give except my time and service. At this time
we were receiving no outside aid and it was very hard, with my
SCENE ON OLD PLANTATION IN SOUTH GEORGIA.