Perhaps no educational institution in the Union has done more for the industrial education of the colored people of the South than the Hampton (Virginia) Normal and Agricultural Institute under the management of General S.C.  Armstrong.  The success of this one institution in industrial education, and the favor with which it is regarded by the public, augurs well for the future of such institutions.  That they many multiply is the fervent wish of every man who apprehends the necessities of the colored people.

In a recent issue of the New York Globe, Prof.  T. McCants Stewart of the Liberia (West Africa) College, who is studying the industrial features of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute for use in his capacity as a professor among the people of the Lone Star Republic, photographs in the following manner the great work being done at Hampton.  Prof.  Stewart says: 

The day after my arrival, I was put into the hands of an excellent New England gentleman, who was to show me through the Institute.  He took me first to the barn, a large and substantial building in which are stored the products of the farm, and in which the stock have their shelter.  We ascended a winding staircase, reached the top, and looked down upon the Institute grounds with their wide shell-paved walls, grassplots, flower-beds, orchards, groves and many buildings—­the whole full of life, and giving evidence of abundant prosperity, and surrounded by a beautiful and charming country.  We came down and began our rounds through “the little world” in which almost every phase of human life has its existence.

We went into the shoe-making department.  It is in the upper part of a two-story brick building.  On the first floor the harness-making department is located.  We were told that Frederick Douglass has his harness made here.  One certainly gets good material and honest work; and reasonable prices are charged.  In the shoe department several Indian boys and youths were at work.  There were also three or four colored boys.  They make annually for the United States government two thousand pairs of shoes for the Indians.  They also look after outside orders, and do all the repairing, etc., of boots and shoes for the faculty, officers, and students—­making fully five thousand pairs of shoes a year, if we include the repairing in this estimate.  At the head of this department is a practical shoemaker from Boston.  Each department has a practical man at its head.  We visited, not all the first day, the blacksmith, wheelwright and tin shops, and looked through the printing office, and the knitting-room, in which young men are engaged manufacturing thousands of mittens annually for a firm in Boston.  These two departments are in a commodious brick edifice, called the “Stone Building.”  It is the gift of Mrs. Valeria Stone.

One of the most interesting departments is located also in the “Stone Building”—­the