Chapter II: Front Matter (2)

On Friday, the 24th, began the yearly examinations of the Santee Normal Training School. Teachers and scholars were alive to the duties placed upon them, and the end of the seventeenth year found all active as ever. The recitations extended throughout Friday, Monday and Tuesday, and visitors from the Agency and surrounding towns were made welcome. The school-rooms, thrown open together, were well filled during most of the sessions. Especially interesting was the map-drawing and accompanying recitation by the older geography students. The recitation showed that an Indian may have as clear and correct an idea of the formation of this earth and its divisions into hemispheres, countries, etc., as any white boy. The maps were accurately and admirably drawn. The language lessons were novel, and showed good work on the part of the teachers. Stories were read to the students which they were asked to re-write in as good English as possible. The following from a boy brought into the school last fall, is a good illustration of the way in which they think and speak in English: “We get all our silk from a little creature called worm. The little creature is green color. She lay number of eggs and then died, and they have never seen their children and father.”

Music is by no means drudgery to the Indians. Passionately fond of it, they practice with patience, and the results have been more than satisfactory. Considering the lack of all discipline in their natures, the examinations this year, both in vocal and instrumental music, have been remarkable. Those thousands in the East who heard, last winter, the singing of the Santee quintette, can easily believe that this is true.

Gymnastics have been practiced as a means of teaching accuracy and quickness of thought. The precision acquired by the students shows that it has been a good discipline, and would do credit to any school.

The recitations in mathematics were good. The work in algebra deserves special mention. One thing is very evident in studying the school work here; that is, that while in everything requiring simple memory the Indian is fully equal to the white boy, perhaps more than equal, his reasoning faculties are much behind, on account of the lack of such faculties in the generations of his ancestors; so mathematical work requires patient plodding, month after month, for each step gained. There is very great need of such discipline among this people, and it is one of the most difficult things in this work of education and Christianization.

Twenty minutes were given on Monday to the workings of a model normal class in botany. It was most unique, carried on wholly by the advanced students. They showed clearly the most approved manner and methods not only of teaching, but also of learning. The whole was skillfully and understandingly done.

Tuesday evening was devoted to a literary entertainment. Space allows only of a word or two in regard to it. A former graduate of Santee, who is now one of its teachers, read an essay on “Civilization” well worth repeating. He began with the earliest known civilization before Christ; came down through the centuries with examples proving Christianity to be the mainspring of modern civilization, ending with a touching picture of the angels of God looking down upon this, the greatest nation of the world, and watching anxiously to see it turn a listening ear to the plea of the poor Indian for this very knowledge of God, which he realizes is his only salvation, his only path to the civilization for which he longs. Beautifully pathetic were the words in which he spoke of our common brotherhood and of the longing of his people for better things.

On Wednesday morning the exercises opened with a battalion drill, and later, time was given to an exhibition of the industrial work of the students. The blacksmith, carpenter and shoe shops held proof of good solid work on the part of the boys; while the needle-work of the girls and small boys was exceptional. The talent for free-hand drawing is very general among the Indians, and the collection of specimens was good.

The exercises closed on Wednesday evening with a social gathering in the large dining hall. There were present all the boys and girls of the school, the teachers, employees, and many visitors. Blanketed Indians mingled with the rest, and many nationalities were represented. It was a novel company, but all were happy and glad. With the close of the evening, Santee finished a successful year. Very early on Thursday morning nearly a score of the students were busy with preparations for departure. In the quiet of the dawn some of us heard the sound of music, most unusual at this hour; and one of the teachers venturing to the chapel, found the young men holding a meeting for prayer. It was their own idea; they had waked one another quietly for it. It was the surest safeguard against the temptations they were going out to meet. This single incident shows better than words the missionary spirit pervading the whole school. And so, to-day, with the departure of the students, goes out the gospel influence of Santee—far North into Canada, East into Minnesota, and West into Montana, never to diminish, but to grow and spread until the white man’s God shall be indeed the God of all the Indians.

What is true of the advance of the pupils of Santee is indicative of the advance of the whole people. There is surely a bright day coming for the Indian.

MRS. CHAS. W. SHELTON.

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THE CHINESE.

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IMPERIUM IN IMPERIO.

The story which I have to tell this month may startle our readers east of the Rockies, though the hard fact underlying it has long been known to us on this Pacific slope, and especially in San Francisco.

On Sunday, June 5th, among seven Chinese who were baptised and received to Bethany church, was one young woman about fifteen years of age. She was the second female Chinese received to our fellowship, for out of more than 120 of that nation whom I have baptised, all but two have been males.

This young woman is remarkably beautiful in person, pleasing in her ways, and interesting in character. Her father is in China. Her mother, quite in accordance, perhaps, with the moralities of Chinese heathenism, had taken to herself another husband for the time being, and had gone to Arizona to ply her trade, the nature of which I do not _certainly_ know, and therefore will not suggest. To raise funds she had _pawned_ this girl for $250, but had paid $100 on her debt. A very estimable Chinaman, not a professed Christian, but one of whom we have hoped much, knowing the parties and hearing that little Ah Yung was being harshly treated, advanced the balance of the debt and took possession of the child. He placed her in the family of our helper, Jee Gam. Thus she became known to the lady teachers in our Central Mission, one of whom went up-stairs each evening to the apartments occupied by Jee Gam’s family, to give her a lesson, and also (as always) to speak to her of Christ.

At first indifferent and even hostile, she softened at length, and began to wish that she might become a Christian. With this softening of the heart towards Christ, there rose, of course, an abhorrence and dread of the destiny which, according to heathen customs, awaited her. She did not, however, at first open her heart fully to her teacher, but said that she would like to earn some money, and to work for wages in some American family. A place was found for her which, as being a little remote from the city, was likely to be a safe refuge. But when the time for her removal came, unexpected obstacles were interposed. Jee Gam, while quite willing to have her go, felt that it would be neither honorable nor safe for him to deliver her to any one except the man who entrusted her to him; and this one shrunk from the responsibility of letting her go where it might be difficult for her mother to resume possession of her. Meanwhile the case became more urgent because of a report that her mother would soon be in San Francisco, for, with her arrival, all possibility of legal protection for the child would be gone. Miss Jessie S. Worley, the principal of our Central School, suddenly cut the knot by causing herself, with no one’s consent except that of the child, to be appointed her legal guardian, and she holds her under such protection now.

The day after Ah Yung’s baptism, I think it was, the mother appeared. Entreaties proving vain, she sought by other methods to bring her daughter under her own control, or else to get from some one the coin she was supposed to be worth; for such a girl, just budding into womanhood, in our Chinese matrimonial market, is said to be worth from $500 to $1,500. Last Saturday the Chinaman who had befriended Ah Yung appeared at my study. It was with great difficulty that he could maintain his self-control, though he is a man of strong and steady nerves. His lips quivered as he talked, and his athletic frame often trembled. The mother had appealed to the Six Companies, and his life was at stake. Since then, as I have been informed, a meeting of the representatives of the Six Companies has been held, and our friend was summoned to appear before them. He was given till to-day (June 17th) to restore the girl to her mother—an act entirely beyond his power. Meanwhile, the High-Binders were already on his track, and he scarcely feels safe even in Oakland and in his own employer’s house. He will probably be obliged to flee, perhaps to some point far East, for he will not be able, even if disposed, to surrender the dear child to the fate to which, in her mother’s hands, she would be doomed.

This has brought closer home to me than ever before the fact of an _imperium in imperio_ in our Chinese communities. It stirs one’s blood to think that this young man can make no effective appeal to our Government against this secret tyranny. It may very likely be that if he should be murdered, his murderer, if convicted, would be hung; but this is at best a cold and shadowy comfort in the present emergency.

“A good argument, this,” some one avers, “for hustling the whole brood out of the land!” But in so doing we should not help ourselves at all, and we should hustle them back into deeper darkness and severer cruelty. A good argument, rather, as it seems to me, for pouring in with intenser zeal and more practical endeavor, the life-giving, freedom-giving light of Christ.

W. C. POND.

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BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK.

MISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.

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Our matrons and teachers find much to interest them in studying the characteristics of the students as exhibited in their school life, and especially are they interested in following the students during vacations to their homes and among the people on the plantations. Witness the following extracts from the correspondence of one of our matrons:

I think you would be more surprised and delighted to make a tour of our Boys’ Hall, as I did one evening a few weeks before school closed, than to go through the Ladies’ Hall, because you might not expect so much of the young men. I must say, the absolute cleanliness, order and quiet that reigned as I went around in the time of evening study, was more than I expected.

Nearly every room had its pictures, every one its little case for books, some a window full of plants, and all the ordinary conveniences spick and span, with the beds beautifully made up. Some rooms, especially those of the apprentices, were full of ingenious little contrivances which they have made themselves, and so, of course, take double pleasure in. Their matron kept a diligent eye for something to criticise, and, sure enough, some of their books were wrong end up, and she asked the boys if they expected people to stand on their heads to read the titles.

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The comfort, convenience and neatness of our plain little rooms, where the girls, and equally the boys, are required to have “a place for everything, and everything in its place,” form by painful contrast one of the special trials of our young people when they go out to cabin life in their teaching and other vacation work.

After they have learned to love the new way, it is very hard for them to have no room to themselves, no facilities for bathing, and small chance to display the good taste they have learned to use in the arrangement and care of their personal belongings.

One of our older girls, who keeps a gem of a room here, felicitates herself on having a room to herself where she boards, even though tucked up and the walls full of other people’s clothes, a saddle, and sundries.

Another of our girls passing through her first experience of “going out,” wrote a wofully homesick letter, saying there was no place to hang up or lay down anything where she was staying; that her trunk had to go under her bed, and after she had made her morning toilet she couldn’t even find room to put down her comb and brush, but had to haul out her trunk and put them back into it. We expect to hear a more cheerful song after her school fills up and she becomes busy and interested, for she is really a very energetic girl, practical and positive. We have written advising her to get her brother, who is skillful with tools and teaches near enough to visit her on Saturdays, to put up some shelves and other conveniences in her school-room, to make that as homelike as possible, have her sewing there, and gather her girls in to learn to sew, crochet, etc., if practicable.

[This brother is one of our Biblical class, and already beginning to preach. He had a tramp of a hundred miles or so after school closed, looking for work for himself and others, back from the railway in the more inaccessible regions, where the schools are not snapped up so quickly. In writing of his search, he said: “I have had what some would call a hard time, but I have enjoyed it, and I _know_ that the Lord is with me.” Blessed assurance!]

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All the girls write, sooner or later, to their matron after going home. Some of the letters are rather amusing.

One harum-scarum little miss, who made no end of care when here, after being home a fortnight seems to have been visited with some sense of her shortcomings, and wrote: “If I live I am coming back in the fall, and try to be a better girl than I was before.”

She refers to the text of Scripture that had been given them all as a watchword, and says she often thinks of it; then, as if to confer a like benefit upon her kind friend, she opens her Bible at random and copies: “And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and wash himself in water that he may be clean.” After two or three more of similar tenor, she says: “Think of these verses as long as you live, and also of me,” and ends all by this new rendering of a familiar passage: “Be not overcome evil with good, but overcome good with evil.” Encouraging, isn’t it?

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RECEIPTS FOR JUNE, 1887.

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MAINE, $234.31.

Bangor. Hammond St. Cong. Ch. 76.98; Sab. Sch.
of First Parish Ch., 14.32 $91.30
Bethel. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch. 11.00
Biddeford. Primary Dept. Sab. Sch. of Cong.
Ch., _for Savannah, Ga._ 15.00
Blanchard. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Blue Hill. Mrs. H. W. Johnson, 1; Mrs. M. S.
Mayo, 1 2.00
Brewer. M. Hardy (10 of which _for Pleasant
Hill, Tenn._) 25.00
Castine. Mrs. C. M. Cushman, for _Tougaloo U._ 2.75
Gardiner. Ladies, _for Debt_. 4.65
Kennebunk. Union Ch. and Soc. 22.00
Lyman. Cong. Ch. 8.00
Machias. Center St. Cong. Ch., 6.70; “C. L.,” 5 11.70
Machias. Sara P. Hill’s Sab. Sch. Class, _for
Indian M._ 1.25
Scarboro. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 10.25
South Berwick. Mrs. Lewis’ S. S. Class, _for
Wilmington, N.C._ 1.50
Waterford. First Cong. Ch. 13.00
Winthrop. Bbl. and Box of C., _for Wilmington,
N.C._; 1.91 _for freight_ 1.91
Yarmouth. Mrs. Reynold’s S. S. Class, _for
Wilmington, N.C._ 8.00

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $374.79.

Amherst. Cong. Ch. 15.75
Bennington. Cong. Ch. and People 9.31
Canaan. “Friends,” Bbl. Books etc., _for
Straight U._
Concord. Mrs. L. N. Barron, _for Student Aid,
Straight U._ 25.00
Concord. “A Friend of the Colored Race” 5.05;
J. W. Chandler, 1 6.05
Derry. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 19.00
Durham. Cong. Ch. 44.93
Exeter. “A Thank Offering” 25.00
Franklin. “Friends” 3; Mrs. John H. Rowell, 2,
_for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 5.00
Great Falls. Bbl. of C. _for Pleasant Hill,
Tenn._
Greenville. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Henniker. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MISS
ZILPHA BARNES L. M. 38.00
Hinsdale. Cyrus Newhall 1.00
Hollis. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.76
Jaffrey. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Woman’s
Work_ 4.00
Lancaster. Cong. Ch. 14.40
Lebanon. “Friends,” Bbl. Books, etc., _for
Straight U._
Nashua. Sab. Sch. Class by Miss Dora Spalding,
_for Storrs Sch._ 20.00
Portsmouth. North Ch. and Soc. 101.19
Salem. Ladies of Cong. _Ch., for Debt_ 6.00
Salisbury. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., _for Atlanta
U._ 2.00
Tilton. C. C. Sampson, _for Student Aid,
Straight U._ 3.00
Walpole. Y. P. M. Circle of Cong. Ch. 11.40

VERMONT, $1,326.27.

Benson. Miss J. Kent 1.50
Bridport. Ladies, 26; Sab. Sch., 5, _for
McIntosh, Ga._, by Mrs. Ellen D. Wild 31.00
Brownington. S. S. Tinkham 5.00
Burlington. 2 Bbls. and Box of C., _for
McIntosh, Ga._
Cornwall. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (25 of which from
Ladies, _for McIntosh, Ga._) 73.01
Dorset. Mrs. William D. Marsh, _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
Dorset. Sab. Sch. and W. H. M. S. of Cong.
Ch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 30.00
Fairfield. Cong. Ch. 4.75
East Fairfield. Cong. Ch. 3.61
Georgia. Ladies, _for McIntosh, Ga._, by Mrs.
Ellen D. Wild 9.00
Granby. “A Friend,” _for Debt_ 5.00
Granby. Infant Class, by W. H. Matthews, _for
Rosebud Indian M._ 1.10
Manchester. Cong. Ch., 36.01; Samuel G. Cone 50 86.01
Manchester. Ladies, _for McIntosh, Ga._, by
Mrs. Ellen D. Wild 5.00
Middlebury. Lillie C. Chapman, _for Indian M._ 0.20
Norwich. Ashley Blodgett 5.00
Rutland. Ladies, Bbl. of C., _for Straight U._
Swanton. Mrs. Augusta Dorman, _for McIntosh,
Ga._, by Mrs. Ellen D. Wild 2.00
Swanton. Box of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._
Springfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for
McIntosh, Ga._ 8.45
Townshend. Cong. Ch. (5 of which from Mrs.
Rice) 15.50
West Brattleboro. Cong. Ch. 15.14
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$326.27

LEGACY.

Saint Johnsbury. Estate of Miss Emma L.
Taylor, by James C. Taylor, Ex. 1,000.00
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$1,326.27

MASSACHUSETTS, $3,346.37.

Amherst. North Ch. 10.00
Amherst. Miss M. E. Fowle, _for Tougaloo U._ 1.00
Andover. “A Friend” Map of U.S. _for
Thomasville, Ga._
Ashfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. JOHN
WING L. M. 41.31
Ayer. Orthodox Cong. Soc. 16.40
Ballardvale. Union Ch. and Soc. 4.00
Belchertown. Mrs. R. W. Walker 2.00
Bernardston. Cong. Soc. 4.00
Boston. Union Ch. and Soc. 108.35
East Boston. Emma Fales and Sister 1.00
Dorchester. Village Ch. and Soc. 46.40
Dorchester. Miss Grace S. Wilder 5.00
Jamaica Plain. Boylston Cong. Ch. 5.37
Jamaica Plain. Mrs. L. G. Jarvis,
_for Oahe Indian M._ 5.00
Roxbury. Mr. Susan Collins 10.00
Roxbury. Walnut Av. Cong. Ch. 184.67
—————— 365.79
Bradford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 40.40;
Ward Hill Sab. Sch., 12.63 53.03
Brockton. Mrs. Sanford, Bbl. of C., _for
Tougaloo U._
Campello. South Cong. Ch. 115.00
Charlemont. Edward Graves 10.00
Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00
Danvers. Mrs. Lucy D. Carleton 5.00
Douglas. “A Friend” 5.00
East Dennis. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 15.00
Easthampton. Home M. Band, Bbl. Bedding, etc.,
_for Straight U._
East Templeton. Joel Fairbanks 3.00
Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.00
Fall River. Central Cong. Ch. 190.25
Fitchburg. Rollstone Ch, 50; also Box of
Goods, _for Student Aid, Straight U._ 50.00
Framingham. Sab. Sch. of Plym. Ch., and
“Friends in the Church,” 50; “A Quartet,”
42; Ladies of Plym. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 92.00
Gloucester. Sab. Sch. Miss’y Soc., Patchwork,
_for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._
Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch. 28.29
Groton. Union Cong Ch. 47.25
Hatfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.,
_for Fisk U._
Holden. Cong. Ch. 15.00
Holyoke. Ladies, Box of C. _for Straight U._
Housatonic. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 66.18
Huntington. First Cong. Ch. 3.24
Hyde Park. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,
32.58; First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 15 47.58
Ipswich. Linebrook Cong. Ch., to const. ANDREW
J. PHILLIPS L. M. 30.00
Kingston. Mayflower Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Leicester. Ladies’ Char. Soc., by Miss E. E.
Loring, _for Woman’s Work_ 25.00
Lexington. Hancock Ch. 16.00
Littleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.00
Longmeadow. “T. P. C.” 2.00
Lynn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 22.10; Sab.
Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 14 36.10
Lynnfield Center. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.00
Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 54.00
Marblehead. J. J. H. Gregory, _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 25.00
Mattapoisett. Cong. Ch. 16.00
Middleton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., ad’l _for Debt_ 0.10
Mittineague. Ladies’ Aid Soc., Box of C.,
etc., _for Macon, Ga._
Monson. Mrs. C. O. Chapin 3.00
New Bedford. Mrs. I. H. Bartlett, Jr. 30.00
Newburyport. “Member North Cong. Ch.,” 30, to
const. MRS. NELLIE MILLS L. M.; Harriet O.
Haskell, 2 32.00
Newtonville. Cen. Cong. Ch. 110.15
Northampton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,
_for Indian M._ 50.00
Northboro. Mrs. Martha D. Wells 4.50
North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. 100.00
North Brookfield. “Two Friends,” _for Indian
M._ 2.00
North Brookfield. Ladies of First Ch., Bbl. of
C., _for Fisk U._
North Middleboro. “A Friend,” to const. ADNA
P. KEITH L. M. 30.00
North Weymouth. Nathan Ford 2.00
Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. 107.58
Norwood. Ladies’ M. Circle, by Mrs. J. C.
Lane, _for Woman’s Work_ 20.00
Pepperell. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for
Storrs Sch._ 25.15
Pittsfield. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.17
Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 70.00
Quincy. Miss Harriet Proctor, Box of Books,
_for Straight U._
Reading. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 17.50; “A Friend
in Cong. Ch.” 3; “A Friend in Cong. Ch.” 3 23.50
Reading. Mrs. Eliza A. White, Box and Bbl. of
C. etc., _for Macon, Ga._
Salem. Tabernacle Ch. and Soc. (150 of which
from Joseph H. Towne, to const. MISS LYDIA
A. TOWNE, EZRA L. WOODBURY, JAMES SHATSWELL,
FRED. A. FULLER and EDMUND A. BROWN L. M’s) 290.69
Salem. “Two Individuals” 1 each, _for Marie
Adlof Sch’p Fund_ 2.00
Sheffield. First Cong. Ch. 18.00
Somerville. Prospect Hill Ch. 10.48
Southboro. Mrs. M. J. Temple, Bbl. of C., _for
Tougaloo U._
Southbridge. Miss N. Vinton, Bbl. of C., _for
Wilmington, N.C._
South Easton. James Rankin 7.50
South Hadley. “Mt. Holyoke Sem.” 36; First
Cong. Ch., 25 61.00
South Royalston. Amos Blanchard 10.00
South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
Springfield. Y. P. S. of C. E. First Ch. _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
Swampscott. Miss Emeline B. Sayer 2.00
Townsend. Miss M. A. Proctor, 65 Books, _for
Straight U._
Walpole. Ortho. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 62.23
Waltham. _For Student Aid, Storrs Sch.,
Atlanta, Ga._ 3.00
Wellfleet. Second Cong. Ch. 6.00
West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.60
Westhampton. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., by Mrs. E.
P. Torrey, adl., _for Tougaloo U._ 10.00
West Medway. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 3.00
West Stockbridge. Cong. Ch. adl. 1.25
West Warren. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Straight U._ 5.00
West Washington. Mrs. Esther Melins 1.00
Whately. Cong. Ch. 13.00
Williamstown. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
Rosebud Indian M._ 20.00
Winchendon. North Cong. Ch. and Parish 70.00
Winchendon. Atlanta Soc., _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 36.00
Winchester. “A Friend” 20.00
Worcester. Union Ch, 205.12; J. M. Bassett,
100; Geo. W. Ames, 3; Polly W. Ames, 3 311.12
Worcester. Ladies Benev. Soc., Union Ch. 2 and
Bbl. of C., _for Talladega C._ 2.00
Yarmouth. Cong. Ch., by Rev. L. Reynolds, _for
Selma, Ala._ 6.30
——. “A Friend in Mass.,” _for Debt_ 1.00
By Charles Marsh, Treas. Hampden Benev. Ass’n:
Ludlow 21.20
Mittineague 25.66
Monson. Sab. Sch. 50.00
West Springfield. Park St. 45.77
————— 142.63

CLOTHING, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.

Auburndale. “Friends in Cong. Ch.” 1 Bbl.,
_for Atlanta U._
Boston. Mrs. H. N. Ayers, 1 Bbl., _for Santee
Indian M._
Linwood. D. C. M. Rupp, 1 Bbl.
Maynard. Friends in Cong. Ch., 1 Bbl.
Medford. Miss Washburn, 1 Bbl., _for Oaks,
N.C._
Waverly. M. A. Chany, Clothing

RHODE ISLAND, $422.41.

Central Falls. Cong. Ch. 53.00
East Providence. “A Friend” 200.00
Providence. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 75; North Cong.
Ch. 45.32; A. L. Ordway, 25 145.32
Providence. Ralph Ernest Larry, _for Rosebud
Indian M._ 0.10
Westerly. Cong. Ch. 23.99

CONNECTICUT, $4,024.93.

Bethel. Y. L. M. Circle, Bbl. of C., _for
Thomasville, Ga._
Birmingham. Cong. Ch. 117.60
Bridgeport. Ladies of South Cong. Ch.,
_Freight for Thomasville, Ga._ 1.45
Canaan. “For Missionary Work” 5.00
Canton Center. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.24
Colchester. First Cong. Ch. 65.65, and Sab.
Sch., 3.50 69.15
Cornwall Hollow. “Thanksgiving Workers”
Patchwork, for quilt, _for Thomasville, Ga._
Durham Center. Miss E. H. Newton and Miss A.
P. Camp, Patchwork, Apron and 50c. _for
Student Aid, Thomasville, Ga._ 0.50
East Avon. Cong. Ch. 15.00
East Hampton. Philo Bevin 25.00
East Hartford. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,
_for Indian M._ 50.00
East Hartford. First Ch. (2.55 of which _for
Indian M_) 20.00
Ellington. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Box of C.,
_for Thomasville, Ga._
Glastonbury. First Cong. Ch., to const. MRS.
W. S. GOSLEE, CORA HALE, AMELIA HUTT, MARY
ROBINSON, MINNIE COUCH, MRS. ELLEN A.
GAINES, MRS. JAMES GAINES, MRS. JUSTIN
HOLLISTER, H. E. LOOMIS, P. H. GOODRICH,
MRS. ADELADE DEAN, and MRS. GEO. W. BARTLETT
L. M’s 400.00
Granby. First Cong. Ch. 7.07
Guilford. First Cong. Ch., to const. MISS
NELLIE C. SNOW L. M. 30.00
Hartford. Roland Mather 1,000; First Ch.
339.23; Windsor Av. Cong. Ch. 15; Asylum
Hill Cong. Ch. 7 1,361.23
Hartford. Benev. Soc. of Fourth Cong. Ch. 1.40
_for Freight_; Benev. Soc. of Park Ch. Box
of Goods, 3 _for Freight_; The Parsonage
Circle of First Ch. Bbl. of Goods, _for
Thomasville, Ga._ 4.40
Higganum. Cong. Ch. 20.00
Kensington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
Indian M._ 25.00
Lakeville. L. M. S. 1; Ladies of Cong. Ch.
Bbl. of C., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 1.00
Litchfield. First Cong. Ch. 50.32
Mill Brook. Mrs. E. R. Allen 0.50
New Britain. First Church of Christ 115.00
New Britain. Willie Peck, 1 years “Nursery,”
_for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._
New Haven. United Ch. 154.00
New Haven. Ferry St. Ch., _for Pleasant Hill,
Tenn._ 32.70
New London. First Cong. Ch. 52.16
North Haven. E. Dickerman 2.00
Plainville. Ladies’ Soc. of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of
C., _for Thomasville, Ga._
Putnam. “Mission Workers,” _for Atlanta U._ 25.00
Quinebaug. Pkg. S. S. Papers, _for
Thomasville, Ga._
Sharon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.69
Simsbury. Cong. Ch. 41.81
Southbury. Ladies, by Julia E. Bull, _for Debt_ 1.00
Stamford. First Cong. Ch. 67.21
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 50.75
Torrington. Ladies’ Soc., _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 50.00
Wallingford. Cong. Ch. (39.53 of which _for
Indian M_) 112.91
Waterbury. Second Cong. Ch. 323.42
West Chester. “A few Ladies,” by Mrs. E. Brown 2.00
West Hartford. “Gray Girls,” _for Sch’p,
Indian M._ 40.00
West Hartford. “A Friend” 10.00
West Hartford. Mrs. Richards, fifty S. S.
Books, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._
Windsor Locks. “True Blue Cards,” by Mrs. J.
H. Goodell, _for Indian M._ 10.00
Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. 26.07
Woman’s Home Mission’y Union of Conn., by Mrs.
S. M. Hotchkiss, Sec., _for Conn. Ind’l
Sch., Ga._:
Bridgeport. Ladies’ Social Circle, So. Ch. 41.75
——————
$3,424.93

LEGACY.

New London. Trust Estate of Henry P. Haven
(100 of which _for Indian M._) 600.00
——————
$4,024.93

NEW YORK, $985.36.

Berkshire. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 74.00
Bridgewater. Cong. Ch. 8.75
Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch. 426.16
Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Indian
M._ 37.50
Brooklyn. The Ch. of the Pilgrims, adl. 20.00
Canandaigua. Ladies’ Aux., _for Student Aid,
Hampton N. and A. Inst._, by Mrs. L. H. Cobb 70.00
Daysville. L. S. C., Clock, _for Schoolroom,
Pleasant Hill, Tenn._
Durham. “A Friend” 3.50
Homer. B. W. Payne 10.00
Jamesport. Cong. Ch. 7.00
Little Valley. Cong. Ch. 5.75
Lockport. First Cong. Ch. 10.00
Lysander. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Munnsville. Cong. Ch. 7.00
New York. “A. M. R.” 50; Pilgrim Ch. 10; Morey
Hale Bartow, 2; F. P. Shumway, 1.50 63.50
Northville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 10.00
Norwich. Mrs. L. H. Upton, _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 14.00
Oneonta. Mrs. L. J. Safford 5.00
Oswego. Cong. Ch. to const. SAM’L. JOHNSON,
MRS. ELIZABETH CHESTNUT, MRS. EMILINE
COOPER, MRS. HENRIETTA LORD and MRS. H. G.
MATTHEWS, L. Ms 134.40
Portland. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Coon, 25; Mrs.
Cyntha Reynolds, 50c 25.50
Pulaski. R. D. Gillespie, _for Pleasant Hill,
Tenn._ 5.00
Saratoga Springs. Mary L. Bailey, deceased, by
Eleanor Bailey, Adm’x 25.00
Westmoreland. First Cong. Ch. 13.30; “A
Friend,” _for Indian M._ 5 18.30

NEW JERSEY, $167.12.

Bordentown. L. Bewkes 3.00
Chester. “A Friend” 5.00
Montclair. W. H. M. S. of First Cong. Ch. _for
Tougaloo U._ 75.00
Montclair. S.S. Class, First Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 7.00
Newark. Belleville Av. Cong. Ch. 42.12
Summit. Central Presb. Ch., _for Hampton
Inst._, and to const. REV. F. F. WHITE,
D.D., L. M. 35.00

PENNSYLVANIA, $534.00.

Canton. H. Sheldon 10.00
Clark. S. P. Stewart 2.00
Philadelphia. Miss Mary E. Morrill 5.00
Scranton. Plymouth Ch. 17.00
——————
$34.00

LEGACY.

Philadelphia. Estate of Benj. Coates, by Geo.
Morrison Coates, Ex. 500.00
——————
$534.00

OHIO, $686.37.

Ashland. Mrs. E. F. Thomson 2.28
Berea. First Cong. Ch. 11.18
Bryan. S. E. Blakeslee 5.00
Cincinnati. Central Cong. Ch., 139.30; Sab.
Sch. of Central Cong. Ch. 14.50 153.80
Cleveland. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc. of Jennings Av.
Cong. Ch., 10 _for Indian M_., 25 _for
Memphis, Tenn._ 35.00
Cleveland. John Jay Low, to const. J. W. MOORE
L. M. 30.00
Cleveland. Sab. Sch. of Olivet Ch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 7.00
Conneaut. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 10.00
Elyria. First Cong. Ch., 118.06 and Sab. Sch.
40 158.06
Freedom. Cong. Ch. 18.40
Greensburg. Mrs. Helena B. Harrington 3.00
Hudson. Cong. Ch. 10.23
Kelloggsville. Mrs. P. F. Kellogg 3.00
Mansfield. James Lawson 4.50
Medina. Y. P. S. of C. E., by May Woodward 12.00
North Amherst. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 6
Packages Sab. Sch. Papers, _for Macon, Ga._
Oberlin. “A Friend” 20.00
Rock Creek. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 2 Bbls. and
Box of C. etc. _for Fisk U._
Tallmadge. Young Ladies’ M. S., _for Indian M._ 20.00
Toledo. Miss L. Whitney, _for Austin, Tex._ 20.00
West Andover. Henry Holcomb 3.00
Youngstown. “Mrs. W” 2.00
Woman’s Home Missionary Union of Ohio, by Mrs.
Ella J. Mahoney, Treas., _for Woman’s Work_:
Burton. Mrs. E. A. Hitchcock 2.00
Chester. Saint Paul’s Band 5.50
Cleveland. L. M. S. of Euclid Av.
Cong. Ch. 20.00
Cleveland. Y. P. S. of C. E.,
First Cong. Ch. 3.25
Columbus. “Mite Box and Friends” 16.00
Hudson. L. H. M. S. 3.15
Kelley’s Island. Aux. 3.75
Kirtland. L. M. S. 3.07
Medina. L. H. M. S. 5.55
Oberlin. L. H. M. S. of Second
Cong. Ch. 85.65
Sandusky. L. H. M. S. 10.00
—————— 157.92

INDIANA, $72.22.

Fort Wayne. Plym. Cong. Ch. 20.50
Michigan City. Cong Ch. 51.72

ILLINOIS, $1,390.24.

Alton. Church of the Redeemer 29.85
Amboy. Mrs. D. W. Slauter 3.00
Brimfield. Cong. Ch. 7.80
Chicago. Union Park Cong. Ch., 210.17; First
Cong. Ch., 100.; Leavit St. Cong. Ch.,
10.27; Western Av. Cong. Ch., 5.60 326.04
Chicago. Ashland Av. Sab. Sch., _for Oahe
Indian M._ 15.00
Chicago. Ladies’ Aid Soc. of Plym. Cong. Ch.,
_for Indian M._ 50.00
Chicago. Marder, Luce & Co., _for Memphis,
Tenn._ 5.00
Chuay. Mrs. E. H. Gillette, _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 2.00
Elmwood. Mrs. M. D. Wiley, _for Mobile, Ala._ 4.00
Fremont. Cong. Ch. 20.50
Galesburg. “Aunt Lizzie” to const. CASSIUS H.
MURRAY L. M. 30.00
Galva. Cong. Ch. 34.53
Gridley. Woman’s H. M. Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for
Woman’s Work_ 14.35
Lacon. First Cong. Ch. 19.51
La Harpe. Cong. Ch. 12.75
Lewistown. Mrs. Myron Phelps 50.00
Moline. L. H. Ainsworth, Patchwork, _for
Mobile, Ala._
New Windsor. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 2.51
Oak Park. Cong. Ch., (30 of which to const.
REV. FRANK V. STEVENS L. M) 234.65
Payson. Cong. Ch. 22.78
Peoria. K. Rutherford’s S.S. Class, _for
Mobile, Ala._ 12.00
Quincy. First Union Cong. Ch. 189.15
Rockford. Second Cong. Ch. 214.74
Saint Charles. Cong. Ch. 7.35
Winnetka. Cong. Ch. 32.73
Woodburn. Mrs. C. E. Sturges, deceased, by A.
L. Sturges 50.00

MICHIGAN, $451.04.

Alamo. Julius Hackley 20.00
Ann Arbor. Cong. Ch. 2.50
Calumet. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 35.00
Detroit. Miss M. L. Miller, _for Woman’s Work_ 25.00
East Gilead. Rev. L. Curtis 1.50
East Saginaw. First Cong. Ch. 113.33
Galesburg. “A Friend” 110.96
Muskegon. Cong. Ch. to const. MRS. G. P.
KINGSBURY and WILLIAM MCMILLAN L. Ms 60.00
Niles. Dr. James Lewis 25.00
Romeo. “Little Sunbeams” 5; Miss Annie McKay
5; Mrs. Greenshields 5, _for Student Aid,
Straight U._ 15.00
Wheatland. _For Student Aid, Athens Ala._ 5.00
Woman’s Home Missionary Union of Mich. by Mrs.
E. F. Grabill, Treas., _for Woman’s Work_:
Detroit. W. H. M. S. of Woodward
Av. Cong. Ch. 25.00
Grand Blanc. “Willing Workers” 12.50
West Adrian. L. M. S. adl. 0.25
—————— 37.75

WISCONSIN, $267.87.

Beloit. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Straight
U._ 10.00
Beloit. L. Meacham 3.00
Brodhead. “Friends,” _for Memphis, Tenn._ 3.00
Clinton. John H. Cooper 5.00
Kaukanna. Cong. Ch. 24.00
Kenosha. Y. P. S. of C. E. by Carrie L. Bray 4.08
Lake Mills. Cong. Ch. 3.00
Oshkosh. Second Cong. Ch., Welsh, _for
Tillotson C. and N. Inst._ 5.00
Watertown. Cong. Ch. 10.87
Waukesha. First Cong. Ch. 50.00
——. “A Friend in Wis.” _for Macon, Ga._ 10.00
Woman’s Home Missionary Union of Wis. _for
Woman’s Work_:
Arena. W. H. M. S. 1.00
Beloit. W. H. M. S. of First
Cong. Ch., to const. ANNA B.
KEEP and MISS SARAH F.
BLAISDELL L. M’s 60.00
Clinton. W. H. M. S. 3.00
Green Bay. W. H. M. S. of Presb.
Ch. 20.00
Menasha. “Cheerful Workers.” 3.56
Milwaukee. W. H. M. S. of Grand
Av. Cong. Ch. 25.00
Winnebago. Convention 22.36
Amiret, Minn. Mrs. L. H. Dwinell 5.00
—————— 139.92

IOWA, $316.16.

Burlington. Children’s Mission Band, _for
Savannah, Ga._ 3.00
Cedar Rapids. Eugenia, Helen and John
Brocksuit (birthday memorial to sister
Gertrude) 1.00
Corning. Cong. Ch. 6.57
Des Moines. Mrs. J. F. Rollins 2; Ladies of
Plymouth Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 2.00
Dubuque. Mrs. C. C. Wheat 2.00
Fairfield. “Friends,” Box Books, _for Straight
U._
Grinnell. Cong. Ch. 6.62
Hampton. First Cong. Ch. 7.19
Marcus. “Life Member” 1.00
McGregor. J. H. Ellsworth 10.00
Muscatine. Cong. Ch. 66.00
Osage. Cong. Ch. 50.00
Sawyer. Francis Sawyer 20.00
Sibley. Viola Mission Band, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 4.55
Webster City. “Friends,” _for Pleasant Hill,
Tenn._ 10.00
Woman’s Home Mission’y Union of Iowa, _for
Woman’s Work_:
Des Moines. L. H. M. S. North
Park Cong. Ch. 2.50
Grinnell. W. H. M. S. 4.79
Iowa City. Y. P. 10.00
Iowa City. W. H. M. U. 25.00
Lansing Ridge. Ladies of German
Cong. Ch. 5.00
Marion. “Busy Gleaners” 20.00
Marshalltown. Ladies 5.00
Mount Pleasant. Ladies 7.00
New Hampton. Ladies 1.75
Osage. Ladies 2.94
Osage. Y. P. S. C. E. 5.11
Polk City. Ladies 0.60
Prairie Hill. Ladies 0.04
Sioux City. Ladies 6.50
Tabor. L. M. S. 15.00
Waucoma. Ladies 15.00
—————— 126.23

MINNESOTA, $106.14.

Leech Lake. “A Friend” 4.50
Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 25.50; First Cong.
Ch. 9.64; Pilgrim Cong. Ch. adl. 5; Mrs. R.
Laughlin 1 41.14
Morris. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Northfield. First Cong. Ch. 14.80
Northfield. Rev. A. Willey, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 10.00
Rushford. Rev. W. Snell and others, Box
Papers, etc., _for Jonesboro, Tenn._
Saint Paul. Mrs. J. L. Howard, _for Oahe
Indian M._ 2.00
Zumbrota. Cong. Ch. 23.70

MISSOURI, $49.00.

Garden City. W. B. Wills, 10; Miss A. C.
Wills, 1; F. P. Morlan 1; P. M. Wills, 50c 12.50
Laclede. Mrs. E. D. Seward 3.00
Lebanon. Cong. Ch. 18.50
Pierce City. Ladies Miss’y Soc. of First Cong.
Ch. 10.00
Webster Groves. Cong. Ch. 5.00

KANSAS, $5.00.

Topeka. Mrs. S. Officer 5.00
Topeka. Rev. M. O. Harrington, Box of Books,
etc., _for Macon, Ga._

DAKOTA, $59.75.

Columbia. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Oahe
Indian M._ 6.75
Huron. W. M. S., by Mrs. F. M. Wilcox, _for
Oahe Indian M._ 8.00
Oahe. Endowment Fund 20.00
Oahe. Miss S. Lindermann, 10; “In memory of
Cornelia M. Riggs,” 5 15.00
Plankenton. Girls’ Circle, by Mrs. F. Kinney,
_for Oahe Indian M._ 10.00

NEBRASKA, $30.62.

Ashland. Cong. Ch. 6.55
Chadron. Cong. Ch. 3.50
Fairmont. Cong. Ch. 16.00
Ogallala. Cong. Ch. 2.57
South Bend. Cong. Ch. 2.00

COLORADO, $86.61.

Colorado Springs. First Cong. Ch. 81.61
Highland Lake. “Friends,” _for Student Aid,
Straight U._ 5.00

CALIFORNIA, $1,589.65.

Galt. Rev. Edward Dyer, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 25.00
Los Angeles. Miss A. C. Nichols, _for
Savannah, Ga._ 5.00
Pomena. Mrs. L. N. Suydam 1.00
Riverside. Edwin C. Brown’s Sab. Sch. Class,
_for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 8.00
San Francisco. Receipts of the California
Chinese Mission 1,550.65

OREGON, $1.90.

East Portland. First Cong. Ch. 1.90

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $75.00.

Washington. Ministering League of First Cong.
Ch., _for Marie Adolf Sch’p Fund._ 50.00
Washington. Gen. E. Whittlesey 25.00

KENTUCKY, $95.50.

Williamsburg. Tuition 95.50

TENNESSEE, $710.37.

Jonesboro. Tuition 3.00
Memphis. Tuition 283.90
Memphis. Second Cong. Ch. 6.00
Nashville. Tuition 389.97
Nashville. Sab. Sch. of Fisk U. 15.00
Nashville. Union Cong. Ch. 12.50

NORTH CAROLINA, $185.75.

Dudley. Cong. Ch. 1.15
McLeansville. Rev. Andrew Connet 4.50
Pekin. Cong. Ch. 1.55
Troy. Cong. Ch. 1.00
Wilmington. Tuition 150.95
Wilmington. “Odd Minutes Miss’y Soc.,” _for
Indian M._ 15.60
Wilmington. Miss H. L. Fitts, 7.25; E. A.
Warner, 2; Miss E. J. Peck, 1.75 11.00

SOUTH CAROLINA, $179.50.

Charleston. Tuition 179.50

GEORGIA, $742.02.

Atlanta. Storrs Sch. Tuition 255.80
Covington. Dinah P. Watts, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta, Ga._ 35.00
McIntosh. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., _for Indian
M._, 18.27; Young Ladies, 1.10 19.37
McIntosh. Tuition 18.50
Savannah. Tuition 133.00
Macon. Tuition 177.90
Thomasville. Tuition 102.45

ALABAMA, $344.80.

Athens. Tuition 51.00
Mobile. Tuition 222.45
Mobile. Woman’s Sew. Soc. of First Cong. Ch.,
_for Indian M._ 5.00
Mobile. Three Pkgs. Patchwork, from unknown
sources
Talladega. Tuition 66.35

FLORIDA, $83.00.

Saint Augustine. Rent 83.00

LOUISIANA, $618.85.

New Orleans. Tuition 618.85

MISSISSIPPI, $23.25.

Tougaloo. Tuition, 15; Rent, 8.25 23.25

TEXAS, $256.50.

Austin. Tuition, 236.90; E. F. Newton, 12 248.90
Austin. Girls’ Mission Soc., Tillotson Inst.,
_for Indian M._ 7.60

INCOMES, $1,965.00.

Avery Fund. _for Mendi M._ 790.00
C. F. Dike Fund, _for Straight U._ 50.00
Gen’l Endowment Fund 50.00
Graves Library Fund, _for Atlanta U._ 150.00
Graves Scholarship Fund, _for Talladega C._ 125.00
Haley Scholarship Fund, _for Fisk U._ 50.00
Hastings Scholarship Fund, _for Atlanta U._ 25.00
Howard Theo. Fund, _for Howard U._ 400.00
Le Moyne Fund, _for Memphis, Tenn._ 200.00
Scholarship Fund, _for Straight U._ 25.00
Tuthill King Fund, _for Berea C._ 100.00

AFRICA, $20.00.

Natal. Mrs. Abbie F. Wilder 20.00
======

Donations $14,633.20
Legacies 2,100.00
Tuition and Rents 3,129.47
Incomes 1,965.00
——————————
Total for June $21,827.67
Total for Oct. 1 to June 30 203,520.74
==========

* * * * *

FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

Subscriptions for June $83.63
Previously acknowledged 772.74
——————
Total $856.37

* * * * *

RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION,
from Sept. 20th, 1886, to May 10th, 1887. E.
Palache, Treas.:

FROM LOCAL MISSIONS.—Alameda, Chinese Mon.
Off’s, 8.75.—Alturas, Rev. and Mrs. G.
Griffiths, 7.50; Mon. Off’s, 15.—Marysville,
Mon. Off’s, 37.35; Ann. Mem., 8; Anniversary
Coll., 8.40. Oroville, Mon. Off’s,
24.20.—Petaluma, Mon. Off’s,
12.55.—Sacramento, Mon. Off’s, 43.50; Ann.
Mem., 2; Last year’s off’s, 53.—San Diego,
Mon. Off’s, 10.50; American Friends, 27;
Chinese Pupils, 20.50, _for San Diego
Mission House._ Santa Barbara, Mon. Off’s,
59.35; Teachers and Friends, 8.95; Ann.
Membs., 8. Gin Fooking, 20; Ye Loy, 15; Gin
Chow, 20; Woo Yung, 15; Pon Dan, 12; Other
Chinese, in sums of 5 and less, 94.20; Mrs.
E. M. Shattuck, 20; W. N. Hawley, 20; Mrs.
Fuller, 10; Seven little girls, 2.80—Santa
Cruz, Mon. Off’s, 36.63; Cong. Ch., 20;
Anniversary Coll., 12.20.—Stockton, Mon.
Off’s, 44.80; Mrs. Langdon, 2; Mrs.
Patterson, 1.—Tulare, Mon. Off’s, 6.25; H.
E. Dye, 2.25 $708.70

FROM CHURCHES.—Berkeley, Cong. Ch., “A
Friend,” 5.—Pescadero, Cong. Ch.,
2.—Haywards, Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. of C. E.,
8.75; Bible Class, 1.25.—San Francisco,
Bethany Ch., S. McLellan, 6.25; Mrs. H. W.
Lamont, 8; “Other American Friends,”
4.—Central Mission, Mon. Off’s, 21.15. West
Mission, Mon. Off’s, 29.90; Dea. S. W., 2.50 88.80

FROM INDIVIDUAL DONORS.—Balfour, Guthrie &
Co., 500; Mrs. J. E. Sanford, 12; W. F.
Whittier, 11.50; Rev. E. N. Dyer,
10.—Lugonia, Edson D. Hale and J. S.
Edwards, 7.—Sandwich Islands, Kohala Rev. A.
Ostrom, 5 545.50

FROM EASTERN HELPERS—Bangor, Me., “Friend,” by
Mrs. Mary T. Pond, 10; “Almost Home,”
5.—Belfast, Me., Mrs. E. M. Pond, 5.—Derby,
Vt. “Young People,” 2.—Marlboro, Mass., Miss
H. J. Alexander, 5; Miss Ellen Beckford,
5.—Stockbridge, Mass., Miss Alice Byington,
_for Santa Barbara Mission House_, 100, _for
General Work_, 50.—Niagara Falls, N.Y., Rev.
H. S. Huntington, 5.—Detroit, Mich., The
Bright Shining Stars, by Mrs. W. T. Black,
_for San Diego Mission House_, 20.65 207.65
——————
Total $1,550.65

H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,
56 Reade St., N.Y.

* * * * *

BRADFORD ACADEMY,

An Institution for the Higher Education of Young Women.

BRADFORD, MASS.

INCORPORATED 1804.

CALENDAR.

The year 1887-88 closes with public anniversary, June 20, 1887.

THE YEAR 1887-88.

First Term opens, Tuesday, September 6, 1887.
First Term closes, Monday, December 5, 1887.
Second Term opens, Tuesday, December 6, 1887.
Second Term closes, Friday, March 2, 1888.
Third Term opens, Tuesday, March 20, 1888.
Third Term closes, Wednesday, June 20, 1888.
Recess at Christmas time.

The academic year closes on the last Wednesday but one in June, and consists of three terms. The year 1887-88 will commence on the first Tuesday in September.

EXPENSES.

BOARD, including washing, fuel, and lights.

FIRST TERM $90.00
SECOND TERM 90.00
THIRD TERM 90.00
TUITION, including English branches, Latin and French,
Greek or German, and Vocal Music in Classes ($20
per term), for the year 60.00
———————
Total expenses for the year $330.00

Special terms to daughters of Missionaries and Clergymen.

No extras except the following:—

=Tuition in Music and Art=: Instruction on Piano, per term, $20.00 to $40.00. Use of Piano one hour a day, per term, $3.00. Instruction in Art, including Linear and Perspective Drawing, and Painting, according to the ability of the pupil, per term, $16.00.

In case of failure after an engagement has been made, information should be given immediately. Application may be made to

J. D. KINGSBURY, Treasurer, Bradford, Mass.

* * * * *

STATEMENT.

PHENIX INSURANCE COMPANY

OF BROOKLYN, N.Y.

JANUARY 1st, 1887.

CASH CAPITAL $1,000,000 00
GROSS SURPLUS 4,888,171 68
—————————————
Gross Assets $5,383,171 68
=============

ASSETS.

United States Bonds, market value $1,104,250 00
Other Stocks and Bonds 1,502,858 90
Loans on Bond and Mortgage 294,900 00
Loans on Call 80,758 76
Cash in Bank and Office 495,135 83
Real Estate 1,082,787 53
Premiums in Course of Collection 667,231 88
Interest Accrued 11,716 42
Bills Receivable for Marine Premiums 140,284 55
Rents Due and Accrued 3,247 81
—————————————
$5,383,171 68
=============

LIABILITIES.

CASH CAPITAL $1,000,000 00
Reserve for Unearned Premiums 3,466,886 97
Reserve for Unpaid Losses 353,759 83
All Other Liabilities 5,438 10
NET SURPLUS 557,086 78
—————————————
$5,383.171 08
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STEPHEN CROWELL, President, GEO. H. FISKE, }
WM. R. CROWELL, Vice-President. CHAS. C. LITTLE, } Ass’t Sec’s.
PHILANDER SHAW, Secretary. JOHN H. DOUGHERTY.}

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No. 1. =Book of Cats and Dogs, and Other Friends.= For Little
Folks. Price, 20 cents.

No. 2. =Friends in Feathers and Fur, and other Neighbors.= For
Young Folks. Price, 35 cents.

{=Neighbors with Wings and Fins, and some others.= For
No. 3. { Boys and Girls. Price, 47 cents.
{=Some Curious Flyers, Creepers and Swimmers.=
{ (Intermediate.) Price, 47 cents.

No. 4. =Neighbors with Claws and Hoofs, and their Kin.= For
Young People. Price, 63 cents.

No. 5. =Glimpses of the Animate World: Science and literature
of Natural History.= For School or Home. Price, $1.20.

The publication of this series marks a distinct and important advance in the adaptation of special knowledge and general literature to the intelligent comprehension of pupils of all grades of attainment. While in no wise tending to do away with the regular school-readers, the “Instructive Reading-Books” introduce suggestive and valuable information and specific knowledge, covering many of the subjects which will eventually be more minutely investigated by the maturing of the pupil’s mind. Sent postpaid on receipt of price. Special terms made on class supplies!