It is possibly true that filth and disease does its fatal work in the Negro Race, the same as in other races among the filthy and corrupt, but the filthy and corrupt in the Negro Race, as a class, are growing fewer every year--for which we can thank the philanthropy of the American people who are doing something to better the condition of the Negro rather than hurling at him enernating criticisms and complaints.
"Their home is at Brodie, in the country, about twenty miles from Henderson, N.C.The father's name is Gillis Garnes.

He is about fifty years of age, and the mother says she is about forty-eight.

The oldest child is a daughter, aged twenty-eight, and the youngest is also a daughter, three years of age; that you see seated in her mother's arms.

They are all Baptists and thirteen of the family are members of the church.

I had this photograph taken at Henderson, on April 8th.
There are seventeen children, all living, of the same father and mother.