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Rh Mrs. Leslie has a large collection of newspaper clippings that are very complimentary to her and speak wonders of her work for the race. Space forbids us at this late day to quote many of them. She is now located at Corpus Christi, Texas, where she is doing a noble work as an educator and a musician. She has saved her earnings and is in possession of considerable property and cash. Mrs. Leslie is indeed a great woman.

Miss McEwen first saw the dawn of day in Nashville, Tenn., July 29, 1870. Her parents were Anderson N. and Elizabeth H. McEwen. She was taught the first principles of English by her mother. She entered Rodger Williams University and doubtless would have finished her course here, but moving from Nashville, and her parents feeling that better care would be taken of her, she entered Spelman Seminary the fall of '85. It was also in this year that her first article for publication appeared. She was a regular correspondent for the Montgomery Herald from. this time until its editor was forced to leave Montgomery.

Three years little Alice (as she was called) was in school trying to fit herself for usefulness. In 1888 she graduated from Spelman Seminary, not as a member