Part 4

“Chloe doesn’t know nuffin ’bout it,” she laughed. “She just thinks that ’cause cousin Emma went to England in a big ship with a heap of colored people to sing, an’ she said ev’rybody was so good it seemed just like Heaven, and nobody seemed to notice that they weren’t as white as anybody, an’ she saw the queen, an’ she went to dinner with white folks in splendid big houses, an’ a white gen’leman took her out to dinner hisself, an’ treated her ’zactly like a white lady; an’ she says, ‘’magine me in Washington an’ Gene’l Sherman taking me out to dinner!’”

Pink stopped breathless.

“But she did say it were sure ’nuff Hebben dere! You didn’t tell it all, Pink Symond,” persisted Chloe, indignantly.

“Yes,” said Pink, more soberly, “she _did_ say that when they came home an’ she had to ride in smoking cars, an’ couldn’t go to table with white folks at hotels, an’ was treated just like we all are, she thought England must be Heaven sure enough, ’cause everybody says this is the freest country outside of Heaven!”

Just then this theological discussion was ended by the sound of the dinner-bells, and Pink and Claudie, with arms lovingly around each other, walked slowly toward the house.

“Of such is the kingdom of Heaven,” murmured Uncle Faith as he watched them from his study window, and the tired look on his face faded away and something came instead that made Claudie say wonderingly—

“Oh, Uncle Faith, you look like—like the apostle John!”

“I think Pink is perfectly beautiful, Auntie,” whispered Claudie at her bedtime talk that night, “and I do wish those ladies at home could see her. You know, Auntie”—the fair face flushing—“I was so ignorant ’bout the colored people this morning, and I didn’t know any better, and I s’pose that’s just the way with those ladies. Isn’t there some way we could tell them, Auntie, that the colored people are just like us, and that they don’t seem so very colored after all?”

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RECEIPTS

FOR MARCH, 1881.

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MAINE, $131.43.

Augusta. South Cong. Soc., ($30 of which from BARRETT E. POTTER, to const. DEA. GEO. F. HAWES, L. M.) $51; Mrs. A. M. C., 50c.; Mrs. D. A. F., 50c. $52.00 Farmington. H. P. K., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 1.00 Falmouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.40 Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 Hermon. Mrs. M. A. Peabody 1.00 Hiram. Ladies of Cong. Ch., by Mrs. L. W. Hubbard, Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._, $2.50 _for freight_ 2.50 Kennebunk. Union Cong. Ch. 15.53 Machias. Centre St. Ch. and Soc. 14.50 Sweden. Members Cong. Ch. 5.00 Windham. Cong. Ch. 7.00 Windham Centre. J. T., 50c.; Mrs. B. F. D., 50c 1.00 Woolwich. J. C. S. 0.50 ————————— $111.43 LEGACY.

Bethel. Estate of Sarah J. Chapman, by A. W. Valentine, Ex. 20.00 ————————— $131.43

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $306.42.

Bennington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.86 Colebrook. J. A. H. 0.50 Dover. E. J. L. 1.00 Exeter. Three Bbls. of C., _for Talladega, Ala._ Farmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.98 Fisherville. Rev. A. Wm. Fiske, $30, to const. MRS. A. W. FISKE, L. M.; MRS. MARY C. ATKINSON, $30, to const. herself L. M. 60.00 Fitzwilliam. Dea. R. B. Phillips, $5; H. H. W. 60c. 5.60 Francestown. R. G. C. 0.50 Great Falls. First Cong. Ch. 26.23 Haverhill. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.32 Hillsborough Center. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $4.30; H. O. C., $1 5.30 Hollis. Cong. Ch. (89c. of which _for Woman’s work for Women_) 26.78 Laconia. “Friends,” Box of C., _for Washington, D.C._ Lancaster. Mrs. A. M. Amsden 5.00 Littleton. Mrs. B. W. K. 1.00 Lyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc., adl. to const. DEA. SAMUEL F. BALL, L. M. 10.80 Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $57.33, to const. DEA. LEONARD FRENCH, L. M.; “Pillsbury,” $5 62.33 Marlborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.59 Mason. E. B. Newell 2.00 New Boston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.73 Orford. David E. Willard 5.00 Troy. M. W. W. 0.60 Wolfborough. —— 5.00

VERMONT, $289.61.

Barre. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.06 Bethel. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.26 Burlington. “A Friend” 1.00 Castleton. Cong. Ch and Soc. 32.00 Clarendon. Mrs. A. Smith 5.00 East Poultney. J. M. 0.50 Essex Junction. Elizabeth T. Macomber 2.00 Greensborough. Mrs. L. S. Patton 5.00 Hubbardton. Mrs D. J. Flagg, _for rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._ 2.00 Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.14 North Ferrisburgh. MRS. C. W. WICKER, to const. herself L. M. 30.00 Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.75 Norwich. Mrs. H. Burton 5.00 Quechee. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. JOSEPH C. PARKER, L. M. 26.50 Royalton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 21.75 Saint Albans. Dea. H. M. Stevens, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 15.00 Shelburne. “A Friend,” _for rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._ 15.00 Strafford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 Wallingford. Cong. Ch., by Miss L. A. Kelley, Bbl. of C. and $1 _for freight, for Tougaloo, Miss._ 1.00 West Charleston. Rev. W. T. Herrick, _for rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._ 8.65 —— “A Friend” 10.00 —— “A Friend” 10.00

MASSACHUSETTS, $3,458.38.

Abington. S. L. 0.50 Acton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.15 Amesbury. Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. of C., _for Washington, D.C._ Andover. C. E. Goodell, $25; A Friend, $5 30.00 Andover. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 15.00 Andover. “A Friend,” _for rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._ 10.00 Arlington. Cong. Church and Soc. 25.00 Ashburnham. Fa r of Children’s Circle of Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta U._ 45.70 Ashfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.50 Ashland. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 3.50 Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 46.00 Athol. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. ANDREW J. HAMILTON and ELBRIDGE E. SPAULDING, L. M.’s 75.00 Barre. Sab. Sch. of Evan. Cong. Ch. 14.03 Berlin. Cong. Ch. 5.00 Boston. Old South Cong. Church and Soc., $672.24; “A Friend,” $1.50 673.74 Boston. Woman’s Home Missionary Association, Abbie W. Pearson, Treas., $150.40, _for Lady Missionaries_; Individuals, _for Mag._, $2 152.40 Boston. Mrs. M. E. Hayden, 2 Boxes of Articles, _for Fair at Emerson Inst._ Boston Highlands. Miss E. Torrey’s Sab. Sch. Class, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 2.00 Boston Highlands. Eliot Dorcas Soc., Bbl. Bedding and C., _for Fisk U._ Bradford. Elijah Bradstreet, _for Fisk U._ 10.00 Bridgewater. Sab. Sch. of Cent. Sq. Cong. Ch. 15.00 Brockton. Mrs. B. Sanford, _for rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._ 10.00 Brockton. Mrs. L. C. Sanford, Bbl. of C. Brookline. “A Friend” 50.00 Buckland. “A Friend” 5.00 Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 9.66 Charlton. Bbl. of C. and $1 _for freight_, by Mrs. H. M. Fiske, _for Kansas Refugee M._ 1.00 Chelsea. “E. G.” _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00 Dalton. First Cong. Ch. 33.98 Danvers. Miss C. W. L. 0.50 Dedham. Miss M. C. Burgess, _for rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._ 100.00 Dorchester. “A Friend of the Freedmen,” $5; C. E. B., $1; Mrs. E. T., 50c.; Mrs. M. J. B., 50c. 7.00 Dracut. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 Easton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.75 Fitchburg. H. M. F. 0.50 Foxborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 31.56 Franklin. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 15.25 Framingham. Mrs. J. W. C., 50c.; Mrs. F. B. H., 50c. 1.00 Georgetown. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.82 Greenfield. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 25.00 Hampshire Co. “A Friend” 100.00 Harwichport. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 6.00 Hatchville. Mrs. V. N.H. 1.00 Heath. Mrs. W. E. Hunt, _for Macon, Ga._ 2.00 Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 105.00 Hopkinton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. _for Mobile, Ala._ Hubbardston. “A Friend,” _for Kansas Refugee M._ 2.00 Linden. “A little boy,” _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 0.25 Littleton. Mrs. Wm. Sewall, _for the poor, Mobile, Ala._ 4.00 Lowell. Edwin Lamson, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 2.00 Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 32.25 Marblehead. J. J. H. Gregory, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 65.00 Marion. Ladies’ Missionary Soc. 5.00 Millbury. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., _Bbl. of bedding, for Atlanta U._ Monson. Mrs. C. O. Chapin and her S. S. Class, _for ed. of an Indian boy, Hampton N. and A. Inst._ 10.00 Newbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.00 Newburyport. Freedmen’s Aid Soc., Bbl. of C., _for Washington, D.C._ Newton. First Cong. Ch. 25.00 Northampton. “A Friend,” to const. MISS HARRIET S. BILLINGS and MRS. ELIZABETH MEAD, L. M.’s 100.00 Northampton. First Cong. Ch., _for ed. of an Indian, Hampton N. & A. Inst._ 50.00 Northampton. “A Friend,” _for rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._ 5.00 North Brookfield. Union Cong. Ch. 11.00 North Somerville. “A Friend” 1.00 Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00 Oxford. Mrs. Edward Bardwell, $5; Mrs. D. Payne, $5; _for the poor, Mobile, Ala._ 10.00 Peabody. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., by Mrs. Sperry, 2 Bbls. of Bedding, _for Atlanta U._ Peru. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.00 Roxbury. “A Friend,” _for the poor, Mobile, Ala._ 15.00 Rockland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 75.00 Salem. Sab. Sch. of South Soc., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 70.00 Salisbury and Amesbury. Union Evan. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00 Southborough. P. E. Ch. and Soc. 23.16 South Deerfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $25; Mrs. M. C. Tilton, $2 27.00 South Framingham. G. M. Amsden 5.00 South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.00 Springfield. “M.,” _for rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._ 100.00 Springfield. Homer Merriam, to const. RUTH E. CLIZBIE, L. M. 30.00 Springfield. T. S. S. 0.50 South Royalston. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 Stockbridge. Alice Byington, _for Ind. Sch., McIntosh, Ga._ 5.00 Swampscott. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.64 Tewksbury. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 3 Bbls. of C. and $3 _for freight, for Talladega C._ 3.00 Upton. “Friends,” Bbl. of C., _for Washington, D.C._ Ware. East Cong. Ch. and Soc., $410.90; First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $35.60 446.50 Warren. Cong. Ch., to const. MRS. CHARLES F. PIERCE, L. M. 65.18 Watertown. Ladies, Bbl. of C., _for Talladega, Ala._ Westborough. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $95.03; Sab. Sch. of Evan. Cong. Ch., $50 145.03 Westhampton. Miss H. F. C. 1.00 West Medway. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.00 Westminster. Bbl. of C. val. $45, by Mrs. J. B. Wood; Mrs. H. G. Whitney, $2 _for freight_ 2.00 Westport. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 3.54 Weymouth and Braintree. Union Cong. Ch. 23.79 Wilmington. Mrs. Susan Bancroft 6.00 Winchester. “A Friend” 1.00 Woburn. E. F. F. 1.00 Worcester. Minnie A. Winter 5.00 Worcester. Washburn & Moen, 1142 lbs. of Galvanized Barb Fencing, _3 miles of fencing for Winsted Lawn, Talladega, Miss._ —— “A Friend,” to const. MRS. SUSAN M. SPRAGUE and MRS. LYDIA S. SPRAGUE, L. M’s. 60.00 —— “A Friend” 10.00 ————————— $3,308.38 LEGACY.

Northfield. Estate of Mrs. Amanda Field, by T. J. Field, Adm. 150.00 ————————— $3,458.38

RHODE ISLAND, $526.52.

Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch., $426.02; Rev. A. H. M., 50c. 426.52 Providence. A. D. Lockwood, _for rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._ 100.00 Providence. Central Ch., one Bbl. and two Boxes of C. _for Washington, D.C._

CONNECTICUT, $3,244.01.

Ashford. Cong. Ch. 5.00 Bethlehem. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.15 Branford. H. G. H. 1.00 Bridgeport. First Cong. Ch. 93.81 Collinsville. Mrs. Chidsey, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 5.00 Derby. First Cong. Ch. 17.50 East Hartford. First Cong. Ch. ($10 of which from Abraham Williams), _for Kansas Refugee M._ 20.00 East Hartland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.55 Enfield. First Cong. Ch. 100.00 Fair Haven. Second Cong. Ch., to const. CHARLES N. HUBBARD, L. M. 37.10 Goshen. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 45.00 Haddam Neck. Cong. Ch. 6.00 Hartford. Mrs. Polly Johnson, _for Mendi M._ 1.50 Hartford. Mrs. John Olmsted, _for rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._ 15.00 Harwinton. Cong. Ch. 44.80 Hebron. L. W. R. 1.00 Lebanon. Ladies’ Social Soc. of First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. Litchfield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 Manchester. First Cong. Ch., Box dried fruit, _for Tougaloo, Miss._ Meriden. Edmund Tuttle, to const. MISS MARY A. RICE, L. M. 30.00 Milldale. J. B. D. 0.50 New Haven. Church of the Redeemer, $191.75, and books, val. $14, from Rev. S. W. Barnum 191.75 New Haven. “A Friend,” _for Indian M._ 20.00 New Haven. H. F. Hart, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 25.00 New Haven. E. P. Judd, books, val. $100, _for College Library, Talladega C._ New Haven. “A Friend,” Box of books, _for Tougaloo U._ New London. Mrs. Robert McEwen, _for Hampton N. & A. Inst., new building for Indian girls_ 100.00 New London. First Church 50.75 Norfolk. Cong. Ch., $50; M. A. C., $1 51.00 North Greenwich. Mrs. A. D. 0.50 North Stamford. Cong. Ch. 3.00 Norwich Town. _For Kansas Refugee M._ 5.00 Norwich. Park Cong. Ch. and Soc. 866.62 Norwich. Miss Mary W. Rockwell, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00 Norwich. Home Miss. Soc. of Second Cong. Ch., Box of bedding, _for Atlanta U._ Norwich. Home Miss. Soc. of Park Ch., Bbl. of bedding and towels, _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst._ Orange. Rev. E. E. R., _for Macon, Ga._ 1.00 Plantsville. Cong. Ch. 365.35 Plantsville. “Friends,” $80; Mrs. E. P. Hotchkiss, $5, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 85.00 Prospect. R. R. Brown, $20; Cong. Ch., $17 37.00 Somersville. “A Friend,” _for rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._ 1.00 South Windsor. Cong. Ch., $32; C. W., 50c. 32.50 Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 77.68 Thompsonville. H. P. P. 1.00 Tolland. Lucy L. Clough, ($50 of which _for Indian M._) 100.00 Tolland. Cong. Ch. 6.35 Vernon Depot. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 9.00 Warren. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 36.60 Woodbury. “F. J.,” _for ed. of Indians, Hampton N. & A. Inst._ 1.00 Woodburn. Benjamin Fabrique 20.00 West Winsted. “A Friend,” _for rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._ 10.00 —— “A Friend,” _for rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._ 10.00 ————————— $2,644.01 LEGACIES.

South Britain. Estate of Nancy P. Mitchell, by C. LeRoy Mitchell, Admr. 500.00 New London. “Trust Estate of Henry P. Haven” _for rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._ 100.00 ————————— $3,244.01

NEW YORK, $796.01.