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20    ABBOTT'S MONTHLY

[[images - two photographs of Josephine Baker]]
-Photos by Paul

Two Art Studies of Josephine Baker

French art students, seeking subjects of light and shade, have turned their attention to Josephine Baker who is shown here in an artistic mood. Miss Baker, a former Harlem chorus girl, who in private life is Countess Abatino, was recently chosen queen of the French colonies for the mid-Lent season in Paris.



[[image - a monument]]
A Slave's Tribute to a Kind-hearted Master

Erected by George Washington
Born in Virginia a Slave.
Died at Otterville, Ill.
April 18, 1864
A Christian Freeman

To the Memory of Dr. Silas Hamilton, His Former Master
Born at Tinmouth, Vt. May 10, 1775
Died at Otterville, Ill., Nov. 19, 1834
Having in His Lifetime Given Freedom to Twenty-eight Slaves and at His Death Bequeathed Four Thousand Dollars For the Erection and Endowment of the Hamilton Primary School

How Two Men Worked Out A Great Problem

One Bought the Other Under a Tree - and There Began a Life Partnership Stranger Than Any Story of Fiction
By H.L. CHAPMAN

Many of the world's great reforms have been helped on their way by patient, plodding, sincere individuals who devoted their lives to advance the cause. Just as the undercurrent of the river, though concealed by the surface, carries the stream on to the ocean, so many earnest men have devoted their lives, unseen and unheralded, to assist in giving the momentum that has carried their faith to victory.

Dr. Silas Hamilton was such a man. Born in the Green Mountains of Vermont, just prior to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, of pious hardy stock, his sterling character and rugged personality were the natural evolution of his environment. His thoughts and his ideals were as lofty and as true as the Puritan fervor of his early training, and as rugged as the mountains 'round about him.

Liberal in his religious views and generous in his judgment of his fellow man, Dr. Hamilton was, nevertheless, a strict disciplinarian as to his own opinions and conduct. The pious Puritanism of Roger Williams shaped his though. He believed in absolute freedom in the worship of God, and in the separation of the Church from the State. He believed that all men were born free and equal. "That man did not have the right to hold his fellow man in bondage" was one of the cardinal doctrines of his character.

He graduated from Dartmouth, took a degree in medicine and practiced in his native town, Tinmouth, Rutland County, Vermont.

After the death of his father he took his inheritance and his savings.

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