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JULY . I 894 never thought of enlarging your paper, and malting it a vehicle of news, for the race as well as Tuskegee? It is worth considering. Hastily, G. ALI Con. boy BTW Papers DLC. ~ Edward Everett Hale. To Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson Tuskegee, Ala.] June ~2, 94 Dr. Johnson: I have made careful inquiry and investigation and I find it to be the invariable rule of our Treasurer to deduct from the wages of teachers when ever they have ~ or more continuous weeks of sickness. This being the rule he had no authority to make an exception in your case, there are several cases where teachers have been more or less on the sick list for some time but when ever they have been sick for 2 weeks at a time deduction has been made. This much as to the other side. In view of the professionally high character of your services, your faithfulness, the extra work performed in many ways without compensation, and still further in view of the fact of your being hired by the year I shall ask Mr. Logan to deduct for but one month only during the time that you were sick. Yours Res. Booker T. Washington ALpS Con. ~3 BTW Papers DLC. From William Jenkins Washington July I, 1894 Dear Mr. Washington: Unless all indications are deceptive, I am sure that you could spend a few very profitable weeks here in Washington. The Southern men seem beret on proving to the country that they are 449