Since the organization, the institution has sent forth 218 graduates from its various departments. Besides these graduates, there are hundreds of undergraduates doing great work among thousands of the Negro population of the country. In the Literary Department of Normal there are six well organized schools or courses of study, to wit: 1. Normal or Professional School, with a course of three years. 2. Normal Preparatory School, two years. 3. Model School, four years. 4. Bible Training School, two years. 5. School of Music--Instrumental and Vocal. 6. Business Course, including Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Type-writing, Telegraphy and Commercial Law. Normal has, also, a liberal Post-Graduate Course. [Illustration: CLASS IN MECHANICAL DRAWING.] The Industrial Department has twenty schools or courses, from one to three years, in Cooking, Sewing, Sick Nursing, Laundering, Housekeeping, Network, Blacksmithing, House Carpentry, Wheelwright, Cabinet-making, Shoe-making, Painting, Printing, Broom-making, Mattress-making, Plumbing, Agriculture, Horticulture, Dairy Farming, Stock Raising. Normal is fortunate in her abundant water supply. The school has an excellent laboratory, and a very good library consisting of choice books, and a reading room, wherein are some of the best magazines and journals of the country. There are quite a number of Religious Societies which are doing much good. There are more than twenty buildings of various sizes and uses upon the grounds. A post-office has been established on the Elora branch of the N. C. & St. L. R. R., right at the school, and the station has been named Normal, Alabama, in honor of the school. Fearns is the name of the station on the M. & C. R. R., situated also on the school grounds. Normal does registry and money-order business. It has also an express office and telegraph station. All work, including building, repairing, blacksmithing, wheelwrighting, painting, broom-making, printing, shoe-making, mattress-making, farming, cooking, dining-room and general house-work, is performed by the students. [Illustration: SCENE IN SHOE FACTORY.] The shops are well supplied with ordinary machinery and tools. The farm comprises about 200 acres of land, on which are cultivated for general and experimental purposes many varieties of cotton, grain, and all kinds of vegetables. The farm is well stocked with mules, horses, Devon, Holstein and Jersey cows, best breeds of hogs and poultry; vehicles and implements of every kind. The various fruits of this section are found in the orchards of the farm. The healthfulness of this entire section is generally known. But this school is particularly favored in this regard on account of its excellent location and surroundings. Normal is 1,200 feet above sea-level, with a natural drainage unsurpassed in the United States. The atmosphere is pure and bracing at all times. Very few of the students of Normal received other help than a chance to work out their destinies.