Part 5

Perhaps you ask how we got in. That was an easy thing to do, for there was no locked door to keep us out, and no door of any kind, only an opening in one side of the house. This was an old building, built in the same way as the first one I visited. In some places the logs were a foot apart. Here the benches were made of round logs split in two, the flat part being the top, and in each end of the rounded part were two legs. And such queer looking seats as they were! Only one or two of them had backs. Before long the teacher and a few scholars came. The school was small that day, as there was a “big baptizing,” as they call it, not far away, which always attracts crowds of colored people.

After the scholars had left, and as we were preparing to go, a terrible thunder shower came up which detained us there. The rain came in, drip, drip, at every crack, till after a while there was only one dry corner in the house. The teacher told us that when showers came in school time, the scholars had to sit on their books to keep them dry. The shower continued for some time, and being very tired, after a sixteen-mile drive over new-cut roads through woods, we put on our water-proofs and lay down on the damp benches; but finding the drops were falling into our faces, we were obliged to put up umbrellas. This was resting under difficulties. There, in that open building, far away from any one, with the rain coming in and standing in pools on the floor, we fully realized what these poor country people have to go through to learn their A, B, C; and those who continue their schools in the winter must suffer greatly from the cold, as they only have a fire-place in one end of the room. One teacher told us that his fire-place was so poor, that in winter he built a fire out of doors, while the children gathered around it sitting on stumps and logs. There are not only these two schools I have spoken of, but many such scattered all over the Southern States.

Now, since I have been writing this, I have thought what a nice plan it would be for you boys and girls to save some of your pennies, and perhaps before long one of you would have enough to buy a small, plain black-board, and another enough to buy a box of crayons, or a pretty motto for one of these old bare school-rooms. If you couldn’t send the things, you could send the money for them; and how delighted any teacher would be with a few such comforts! What do you think of my plan?—L. P. H.

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RECEIPTS

FOR AUGUST, 1879.

MAINE, $1,031.89.

Bangor. First Cong. Ch. $29.17 Bath. Eliza Bowker 2.00 Castine. ESTATE of Samuel Adams, by L. G. Philbrook, Ex. 800.00 Cumberland Mills. Rev. E. S. Tead 18.00 Dennysville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. 15.00 Gorham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MISS E. B. EMERY, L. M. 27.72 Vassalborough. ESTATE of Mary B. Buxton, by Samuel Titcomb, Ex. 100.00 West Bath. Isaiah Percy, $3; Buelah B. Percy $2 5.00 Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $301.76.

Antrim. “A Friend.” _for Talladega C._ 5.00 Bath. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.70 Claremont. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 44.35 East Jaffrey. Eliza A. Parker 20.00 Goffstown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 52.29 Haverhill. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.64 Henniker. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 Lebanon. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.00 Manchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 51.33 Meriden. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.80 Merrimack. Merrimack Aux. Soc. 11.15 Milford. Peter and Cynthia S. Burns, _for Athens, Ala._ 50.00 Short Falls. J. W. C. 0.50

VERMONT, $195.95.

Berlin. Cong. Sab. Sch. 3.56 Brownington. Cong. Sab. Sch. (of which $5 from Dea. S.) 8.45 Chester. E. S. 1.00 Essex Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.50 Essex Junction. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.75 Ferrisburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.85 Georgia. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.84 Greensborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 Highgate. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.07 Ludlow. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.34 North Craftsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 Pittsford. Mrs. E. H. Denison 5.00 Sheldon. Cong. Ch. 9.03 Springfield. Cong. Ch. 46.71 Swanton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.85 Townshend. Mrs. N. B. Batchelder 2.00 Wesminster. Rev. A. B. D. 1.00 Westminster West. Rev. A. Stevens, D. D., $10; Cong. Sab. Sch., $10 20.00 Windham. “A Friend,” $7; Cong. Sab. Sch., $4 11.00 Windham. Cong. Ch., $9.10, ack. in Sept. Number, should read, Cong. Sab. Sch.

MASSACHUSETTS, $2,168.10.

Amherst. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00 Andover. G. W. W. Dove. $100; “J. B. C.,” $5, _for Athens, Ala._;—Ladies of Free Ch., $70, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._;—J. L. S., 50c 175.50 Ashburnham. M. W. 1.00 Boston. Rev. B. Southworth 5.00 Boston. Highland Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.60 Boxford. S. B. S., 30c.; Mrs. C., 50c. 0.80 Bradford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.70 Brookline. “M. and H. S. W.” 250.00 Buckland. —— by W. F. Root 2.12 Charlton. Clarissa W. Case 5.00 Chelsea. N. C. Tenny 5.00 Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.25 Conway. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.50 Dana. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of which $12.48 _for Athens, Ala._) 13.50 Easthampton. ESTATE of Samuel Hurlbut, by Mrs. Sarah E. Pettis, Ex. 200.00 Erving. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.15 Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 Grantville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.07 Great Barrington. Mrs. L. M. Chapin 5.00 Greenfield. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., $20, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._;—Miss Janette Thompson, $5 25.00 Hadley. Russell Cong. Ch. 2.00 Holliston. Mrs. W. R. T. 0.50 Hopkinton. Mrs. J. P. Claflin, $150; Cong. Ch. and Soc., $51.36 201.36 Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1.00 Lawrence. Lawrence St. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 60.00 Long Meadow. Gents’ Benev. Ass’n. 27.75 Medway. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 94.55 Monson. Mrs. C. C. Chapin and Class, to const. MRS. JOHN PACKARD, L. M. 30.00 Monterey. Cong. Ch. 10.00 Milton. Cong. Sab. Sch. 31.34 Natick. Mrs. S. E. Hammond 10.00 Newton Centre. Ladies of Mrs. Furber’s Bible Class, $60. _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._;—Cong. Ch. and Soc., $55.64; Deacon Benj. Burt, $2 117.64 North Reading. Rev. F. H. Foster 3.36 Norton. Wheaton Sem., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 25.00 Orange. Mrs. E. W. M. 1.00 Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 Petersham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.37 Reading. Rev. W. H. Willcox, bbl. of C. and books _for Talladega C._ Rehoboth. Cong. Ch. 14.00 Royalston. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 110.34 Shelburne. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 47.83 Shirley Village. L. Holbrook 5.00 South Royalston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 Springfield. North Ch., $40, _for Miller Station, Ga._;—Memorial Ch., $18.40;—Ira Merrill, $5, _for Athens, Ala._ 63.40 Sunderland. Cong. Sab. Sch. 34.33 Templeton. Trin. Sab. Sch. 26.31 Uxbridge. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 33.00 Webster. First Cong. Ch. 50.00 Westfield. Mrs. J. F. 1.00 West Hampton. Cong. Sab. Sch. 23.00 Wellesley. Missionary Soc. of Wellesley College 4.00 Westminster. ESTATE of Mrs. S. A. Damon, by H. G. Whitney, Ex. 208.00 West Springfield. Mittineague Cong. Ch. 12.05 Winchendon. Atlanta Soc., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 40.00 Worcester. Union Ch. 37.73

RHODE ISLAND, $1,776.64.

Bristol. Mrs. M. De W. Rogers, $500; C. De Wolf, $500 1000.00 East Providence. Cong. Ch. 14.00 Kingston. Cong. Ch. 28.77 Providence. Central Cong. Ch. 733.87

CONNECTICUT, $1,142.93.

Bantam Falls. Miss Cornelia Bradley, _for Athens, Ala._ 5.00 Bolton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.76 Bridgeport. Park St. Cong. Ch and Soc. 13.66 Brooklyn. First Trin. Ch. and Soc. 27.00 Canton Centre. “An Aged Friend” 2.00 Collinsville. Talladega Soc., $15.50, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._;—“A Friend,” $1 16.50 Danbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 58.00 Durham. “A Friend.” to const. MRS. HENRY H. NEWTON, L. M. 30.00 East Haven. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 30.00 Ellington. Cong. Sab. Sch. 28.00 Farmington. A. F. Williams, to const. JENNETTE COWLES VORCE, L. M. 30.00 Gilead. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Brown, _for Hampton N. and A. Inst._ 5.00 Greenfield. LEGACY of Dea. Wm. B. Morehouse, by N. B. Hill 200.00 Greenfield. Cong. Ch. 11.55 Guilford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.00 Hadlyme. R. E. and J. W. Hungerford, _for Fisk U._, $100;—Cong. Ch., $12.58; J. H. V., 85c. 113.43 Hartford. “The Armour Bearers” of Talcott St. Sab. Sch. 3.25 Kensington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.00 Middletown. “A Friend” 10.00 Milford. First Cong. Ch. 25.00 Mount Carmel. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.75 North Branford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.25 North Cornwall. Benev. Assn., by E. D. Pratt, Treas. 15.15 New Britain. South Cong. Ch. 66.60 New Haven. Amos Townsend 40.00 North Stamford. Mrs. N. 1.00 Roxbury. “Mother and Daughter” 5.00 Salem. Cong. Ch. 4.00 South Britain. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.10 Southport. “A Friend of the Freedmen” 20.00 Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 22.83 Thompson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.59 Union. Rev. Samuel I. Curtiss, $10; Union Cong. Ch., $6 16.00 Wolcottville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.69 Wauregan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.30 Westfield. Cong. Ch. to const. WM. K. LOGEE and MARY E. KING, L. M’s 65.00 Westford. Cong. Ch. 12.00 West Haven. Cong. Ch. 29.23 West Winsted. “A Friend,” _for Athens, Ala._ 6.00 Wethersfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 43.96 Windsor. Cong. Ch. 10.00 Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. 11.83 —— “Friends” 5.00 —— “A Friend” 17.50

NEW YORK, $25,133.99.

Albany. Vina S. Knowles 5.00 Black River. D. D. 1.00 Brooklyn. J. E. 1.00 Clifton Springs. Miss F., $1, _for Miller’s Station, Ga._;—Mrs. M. M. C., 50c 1.50 Copenhagen. Lucian Clark 10.00 Eaton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.50 Ellington. Mrs. E. Rice 5.00 Elmira. Clarissa Thurston 5.00 Granby Centre. J. C. Harrington, _for Athens, Ala._ 10.00 Ilion. Mrs. S. M. 1.00 Lebanon. Thomas Hitchcock, $5; M. Day, $5; Alfred Seymour, $5; Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Head, $2; J. H. W., $1; Rev. S. M. D., 50c.; Sab. Sch., $1.50, bal. to const. JARVIS A. HEAD, L. M. 20.00 Lima. Mrs. Mary Sprague, _for Student Aid_ 5.00 Newburgh. Mrs. E. I. P., M. D. 0.50 New Lebanon. Presb. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.86 New York. Mrs. Magie, $10, _for Atlanta U._;—J. S. Holt, $10 20.00 Rome. Sarah H. Mudge 10.00 Sidney Plains. Cong. Ch. 10.00 Victor. ESTATE of Melancton Lewis, by Mrs. E. Lewis and S. S. Bushnell. Exs. 24,966.63 West Groton. Cong. Ch., $9; Miss A. T. Cunningham, $5 14.00 —— —— 25.00

NEW JERSEY, $63.43.

Bound Brook. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 8.00 Montclair. First Cong. Ch. 55.43

PENNSYLVANIA, $42.80.

Mercer. Cong. Ch. 37.80 West Alexander. —— 5.00

OHIO, $214.40.

Adams Mills. Mrs. M. A. Smith 10.00 Atwater. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.54 Beloit. J. S. 1.00 Castalia. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00 Deerfield. I. J. 1.00 Huntsburgh. Miss E. L. Miller, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 2.00 Mulberry Corners. Mrs. E. D. Lyman 2.00 Oberlin. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch., by Mrs. Dr. Allen, Treas., $75, _for a Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._;—Second Cong. Ch., $37.46; First Cong. Ch., $16.40 128.86 Plymouth. Mrs. E. A. 1.00 Springfield. Mrs. M. G. 1.00 Thomastown. Welsh Cong. Ch. 20.00 Westerville. Mrs. M. E. H. K. 1.00 Windham. First Cong. Ch. 21.00

MICHIGAN, $142.33.

Adair. Henry Topping 5.00 Adrian. A. J. Hood 10.00 Ann Arbor. Cong. Ch. 36.00 Clinton. Woman’s Miss. Soc., by Mrs. Edward Cook, Sec. 5.00 Grass Valley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.12 Homer. Mrs. Mary D. Pease 10.00 Hopkins. First Cong. Ch., $8.60; Second Cong. Ch., $4.40 13.00 Owosso. Union Meeting 9.30 Salem. First Cong. Ch. 4.13 Summit. Cong. Ch. 6.78 Three Oaks. Cong. Ch. 17.00 Union City. Cong. Sab. Sch., $6; bal. to const. LILLIE V. MCCLELLAN, L. M.;—Mrs. E. J. H. and Mrs. D. B. W., 50c. ea. 7.00

ILLINOIS, $636.56.

Broughton. Rev. S. Penfield 5.00 Chicago. E. W. Blatchford, _for Atlanta U._ 315.00 Farm Ridge. Rev. J. P. Hiester and family 2.00 Ivanhoe. Mrs. S. S. 1.00 Joy Prairie. Cong. Ch. 15.00 Maiden. Cong. Sab. Sch. 2.30 Maywood. Union Ch. 5.00 Moline. Cong. Ch. 45.00 Odell. Cong. Ch. 20.00 Peoria. Cong. Ch. 121.50 Princeton. Mrs. A. R. Clapp, $50; Mrs. P. B. Corss, $15 65.00 Roseville. First Cong. Ch. $21; Rev. A. L. Pennoyer, $5 26.00 Saint Charles. Ladies’ Missionary Soc. 5.00 Stillman Valley. Cong. Ch. 5.76 Tiskilwa. Rev. R. E. Cutler, $2; B. A. B., $1 3.00

IOWA, $170.15.

Alden. Cong. Ch. 8.50 Charles City. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans_ 10.00 Clinton. Cong. Sab. Sch., $25;—Ladies of Cong. Ch., $5., _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans_ 30.00 Davenport. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans_ 10.00 Durant. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans_ 6.00 Grinnell. Mrs. Day, $5; Mrs. B., $1; Rev. S. L. H., $1; Others, $1, _for Miller’s Station, Ga._;—Mrs. Magoun’s Sab. Sch. Class, $5.10 13.10 Hillsborough. John W. Hammond 5.00 Lyons. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans_ 5.00 Marion. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans_ 30.00 Mason City. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans_ 3.00 Mitchell. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans_ 5.25 Monticello. Miss N. P. S., _for Miller’s Station, Ga._ 1.00 New Hampton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans_ 5.00 Orchard. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans_ 4.60 Osage. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans_ 10.00 Quasqueton. Cong. Ch., $5; I. H. D., $1 6.00 Rockford. Ladies Miss. Soc., $3.70; Mrs. E. D., $1; Mrs. A. E. G., $1 5.70 Stacyville. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans_ 3.00 Wayne. D. C. S. 1.00 Wentworth. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans_ 3.00 Wilton. “Little Gleaners,” _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans_ 5.00

WISCONSIN, $62.84.

Arena. Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.00 Fort Atkinson. Mrs. Caroline Snell 5.00 Ripon. First Cong. Ch., $29.85; W. G. B., 50c. 30.35 River Falls. First Cong. Ch. 22.49

MINNESOTA, $55.44.

Excelsior. Cong. Ch. 10.00 Medford. Cong. Ch. 3.25 Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 16.19 Winona. Adna Tenney 20.00 Worthington. Union Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 6.00

KANSAS, $10.

Mariadahl. H. H. Griffin, _for Athens, Ala._ 10.00

NEBRASKA, $36.65.

Butler Co. Cong. Ch. 4.00 Crete. Cong. Ch. 11.65 Iowa Ridge. Cong. Ch. 3.00 Macon. Rev. S. N. Grout 12.00 Schuyler. Sumner & Free 6.00

MISSOURI, $1.50.

Cahoka. Moses Allen 1.50

TEXAS, $1.

Brenham. Mrs. I. H., _for Athens, Ala._ 1.00

CALIFORNIA, $109.50.

Oakland. S. Richards 100.00 Pescadero. Miss. Band of Cong. Sab. Sch. 4.50 Santa Cruz. Pliny Fay 5.00

MARYLAND, $10.

Federalsburgh. Miss Sarah A. Beals 10.00

TENNESSEE, $5.

Nashville. Mrs. E. Spence 5.00

SOUTH CAROLINA, $1.50.

Orangeburgh. Rev. W. L. Johnson 1.50

GEORGIA, $173.45.