Chapter 3

A letter just received from Mr. W. T. Lopp, who is missionary in Arctic Alaska at Cape Prince of Wales, which was written under date of October 2d, is of very great interest. It brings the latest message from this distant mission-field, and this message is one of great encouragement. Mr. Lopp writes:

"Now that the American Missionary Association is out of debt, we hope you will be able to send us a missionary with a missionary wife to be with us. It is hardly necessary for us to cite reasons for this. He should be a minister, if possible. It would not be right to subject children of school age to the influences of the life here. You wrote us up last year as having 'no time for gold hunting, and yet gold has been discovered within a few miles of the Cape.' This brings upon us new anxiety and greater work. Should these claims turn out well, the American Missionary Association will not be forgotten.

"The _Bear_ has made a wonderful cruise this season. I doubt if she ever made a longer one. She arrived here too late to look after some whaling vessels, but considerable testimony has been secured, and if the present captain commands the _Bear_ again next year I think certain whalers will be seized if they do not change their ways. The present captain has made a very conscientious commander, and has surely exerted himself to perform his duty vigorously and honestly. He has administered the law toward the Eskimo as well as white men, and arrested those who were guilty of crime. He was very kind to the natives, giving them help in coming from Cape Prince of Wales to this point and also across the straits to Siberia. When the sea was too rough for their skin boats he would have them hoisted up on deck. The United States surgeon has also been exceedingly kind to us.

"We now have 437 reindeer, and have sent an order signed by Dr. Jackson to the station on Norton Sound for the 277 which are yet due us. These will be driven up some time this winter. After they come we will make an estimate of the number belonging to the Eskimo boys and mark them. I have taken one new herder as an apprentice, and hope to take another or two next year. We sold reindeer at thirty dollars per head to the Bureau of Education, which furnished money for training other apprentices. Our old apprentices can now pay their own way, and the sale of the reindeer in the future will go toward helping new apprentices till they can help themselves.

"The Woman's Home Missionary Association of Boston have contributed toward the support of native workers. We received word about it and rejoiced in their generous gifts. I will use it in helping support Sokweena at our little mission at Mitle-tok. As I wrote last year, we were enabled to start this mission through a small contribution of about twenty-five dollars from the generous Endeavorers of Westboro, Mass. Then some other friends sent in a little help that went toward the support of Sokweena and his wife. It is not enough, but we will try to make it do for the present. We were unable to visit Sokweena but three times last winter. If we could only visit him oftener and help him more he would be able to accomplish more. But some of the children at his mission learn to spell and write a little and to sing. We had some very good meetings. Lucy and I went up and stayed three days. We took a lantern. Many of the old folks had professed Christ and seemed to be earnest and sincere in their prayers. The position for Sokweena is a hard one at times.

"Adlooat, one of our brightest boys, was typo and artist for the _Eskimo Bulletin_. We will not be able to get the _Bulletin_ out before November, I am afraid.

"We have just erected a building twelve by forty feet, which we have decided to call 'Thornton House.' It is to be used as a workshop, club-room and other purposes for the natives. The need of such a building had occurred to Mr. Thornton and myself in 1890. Last year Mrs. Thornton succeeded in gathering one hundred and twenty-seven dollars, which was sufficient to purchase the lumber and pay the freight on it. Two natives and I have put up the building. The natives did most of the work on it, as I could not leave our house long at a time."

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CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS AMONG THE INDIANS.

F. B. RIGGS.

It will be ten years this February since the first Indian Christian Endeavor Society was organized in Santee Normal Training School, at Santee, Nebraska.

The Christian Endeavor movement was rapidly gaining everywhere, and it was not long before other societies were started--in the Oahe mission school, and the Presbyterian mission school at Sisseton, South Dakota. Fourteen months later the first Indian Christian Endeavor Society was started at Santee.

This year at Santee the young people's society includes twenty-one of the Indian pupils with three or four of the teachers, and there are two junior societies, one of girls and one of boys. There is a mothers' society, which was started three or four years ago among the women of the mission church. All these societies have an important place in the Indian mission work.

In the young people's society many of the members remain the same from year to year; but during the ten years one hundred and thirty-two young people have joined. They have come from eighteen different agencies, and in several cases from more than one village in the agency. Out of this one-hundred and thirty-two, twenty-three have been engaged, since leaving school, in direct missionary work, most of them as preachers and teachers of day-schools, but a few as the wives of such teachers, or as teachers in mission boarding-schools or missionary helpers. Some of these have done excellent work, and those of whom this is true are nearly always those who were most faithful and active during their school course in the Christian Endeavor Society. Three or four of the most promising have died before they had any opportunity to work at their homes, but some of these short lives were so faithful and patient that perhaps they did more good than many longer lives.

Three other societies have been started among the Indians, where the leaders were chiefly from those who had been members at Santee. But the societies not connected with mission schools have been transient, or intermittent in their life. Those at Santee and Sisseton, and one at Fort Berthold mission school in North Dakota, have lived. A society is to be started at the Omaha Agency soon.

The young people's society at Santee has been a training school for its members. It has broadened their feeling of Christian fellowship with the great army of fellow Endeavorers. It has given them songs that they enjoy very much. It has increased their interest in missions and deepened their feeling of responsibility for service to the Master.

The junior work at Santee has been especially encouraging among the girls, who are rather more responsive than the boys. Of the twelve little girls in the picture, one died last year, but eight are now members of the senior society.

In the monthly meetings of the Mothers' Society of Christian Endeavor many questions are asked and answered concerning the care and training of children, and the children are remembered in prayer.

One thing, at least, these Christian Endeavor Societies have done. They have emphasized the idea of _endeavor_ and _service_. It expresses itself in the use of a new word, or rather the use of an old word a thousand times where it was used once before. The name in Dakota means "The society of those who want to work for Jesus," and "working for Jesus" has become a more prominent thought in all their religious life.

Last year a Junior Endeavor Society of Indian girls gave one dollar to the Church-Building Society, one dollar to the Education Society, one dollar to the Dakota Native Missionary Society, and one dollar to the American Board. A Junior Endeavor Society of Indian boys gave one dollar to the American Missionary Association. A Senior Endeavor Society of Indian boys and girls last year gave fourteen dollars to the American Board and three dollars to the Woman's Missionary Union. The Endeavor Society proves, therefore, among the Indian boys and girls and young people just what it does everywhere else. It gives them larger views of the kingdom of God, it stimulates them to greater sacrifice in giving of their means to the spread of this kingdom, and awakens within them deeper spiritual earnestness. The life of a Christian Endeavorer, wherever that life may be spent, cannot be a narrow, selfish life, if loyal to the great Christian Endeavor idea. This society is an important factor in Christian enlargement and quickening among our young people on the prairie.

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LINCOLN MEMORIAL SUNDAY.

Sunday, February 11th, marks this celebration in the calendars of our Congregational Sunday-schools. A new Concert Exercise has been prepared and will be sent to superintendents and teachers who desire to keep this day in the interests of Christian patriotism and for the support of the work among the needy millions represented in the life and history of our martyred President, Abraham Lincoln. The A. M. A. reaches by Christian education the American Highlanders, from whom Abraham Lincoln came. It sends missionaries and teachers to the Negroes, whom Abraham Lincoln freed. It plants its Christian work among the Indians, for whom Abraham Lincoln spoke words of honest sympathy. It is this great work that appeals to our Sunday-schools.

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RECEIPTS FOR OCTOBER, 1899.

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THE DANIEL HAND EDUCATIONAL FUND

For Colored People.

Income for October $1,340.00 ==========

NOTE.--Where no name follows that of the town, the contribution is from the church and society of that place. Where a name follows, it is that of the contributing church or individual. S. means Sunday-school; C. means Church; C. E., the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor; S. A. means Student Aid.

CURRENT RECEIPTS.

MAINE, $332.01.

Cape Elizabeth, First, 5. Deer Isle, First, 5. Eastport, Central, 10.27. Ellsworth, First, 12.25. Farmington, First, 17.16. New Sharon, 2

MAINE WOMAN'S AID TO A. M. A., by Mrs. F. W. Davis, Treas., $280.33.

Auburn, W. M. S., High St. C., "In memory of Stephen and Elizabeth Harrison, by H. H. P.," 10. Belfast, 15. Cornish, 5. Falmouth, First, 10. Gorham, 27. Litchfield Corners, 9.15. North Belfast, 2. Portland, State St., 50; Second Parish, 17; High St., 69.63. Scarboro, 10. Searsport, First, 20. Searsport, Second, 8. Waterville. 7. Yarmouth, 20.55.

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $800.11--of which from Estates, $517.20.

Amherst, 10. Exeter, Isaac S. Shute, to const. MARION S. BUSH L.M., 100. Hanover, Mrs. S. J. Kellogg, 10. Gilmanton, Iron Works, 4. Lyme, 55. Manchester, First, S., Special, _for S. Work_, 9.34. New Ipswich, 38th Annual Fair by children of the town, _for Negroes, Indians and Mountain Whites_, 6. Penacook, 8.60. Peterboro, Union, 14.27. Plainfield, Mrs. S. R. Baker, 10. Rochester, First, 30.70. Rochester, C., by H. M. Plumer, 15. Rochester, "M.," 10.

ESTATES.--Cornish. Estate of Mrs. Sarah W. Westgate, by Edwin W. Quimby, Trustee of Cong. Soc., Windsor, Vt., 18.08. Meredith, Estate of Mrs. Lovey A. Lang, 300. Rindge, Estate of Otis Hubbard, by Herbert E. Wetherbee, Executor, 199.12.

VERMONT, $399.82.

Barre, 17.40. Bradford, 13.28. Chester, 16.30. East Berkshire, 9. Fairlee, M. W. Smith, 5. Hartland, "A Friend," 5. Lower Waterford, 2.75. Newfane, First, 12.34. Roxbury, 2.35. Saint Johnsbury, Mrs. F. H. Brooks, box Maps, _for Williamsburg, Ky._ Salisbury, 6.60, Springfield, "Two Friends," through W. H. M. A., 200. Waterford, 3. West Brattleboro, 25.80. Weybridge, C. E., 3.32. Williamstown, 8.17. Woodstock, 40.44. Windsor, Old South 7.47.

WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF VERMONT, by Mrs. Robert Mackinnon, Treas., $21.60.

Brattleboro, West, _for S. A., Indian M._, 3. Chelsea, _for Schp's_, 5. Franklin, 5.60. Saint Johnsbury, North, S. Class, _for Indian Sch'p_, 1. Westfield, S. Class, _for Schp's_, 6. Windham, Jr. C. E., _for Indian Sch'p_, 1.

MASSACHUSETTS, $6,611.39--of which from Estates, $3,398.68.

Andover, South, _for Fisk U._, 100. Andover, South, _for Ballard Sch., Ga._, 75. Andover, South, S., 25. Andover, Y. L. S. of Christian Workers, _for Pleasant Hill Acad., Tenn._, 20. Attleboro, Second, C. E., _for Campton, Ky._, 10. Berlin, 6.

Boston, Union, C. E., 25; Park St., Summer Bible Class, _for S. S. Work, Harriman, Tenn._, 10, "A Friend," 10. South Boston, Phillips, 57.31. Dorchester, Second, C., by Miss E. Tolman, 25; Mrs. Elbridge Torrey, _for S. A., Pleasant Hill, Tenn._, 10; Second, 71.60; "E. C. C.," 10.

Bradford, First, 33. Braintree, First, 10.13. Bridgewater, Central Sq., 21. Brookline, Harvard, 66.81. Cambridgeport, Pilgrim, 10.15. Chester, Second, C., 11; C. E., 5. Danvers, Maple St., 124.87. Douglas, First, 5. East Billerica, Mrs. Caroline E. Richardson, 25. Edgartown, 4. Enfield, W. M. Soc., by Amanda W. Ewing, Treas., 40. Everett, First, C. E., 10. Feeding Hills, 12.50. Framingham, "A Friend," 17.50 _for Indian Sch'p_ and 5 _for Indian Work_. Globe Village, "A Friend," 75 cents. Greenfield, Second, 86.29; Mrs. M. K. Tyler, 12. Holyoke, First, 21.64. Hudson, First, 10. Ipswich, First, 20; Linebrook, 16.70. Lakeville, Precinct, 13.50, and S., 8.16 Lakeville, W. M. Soc., by Mrs. A. C. Southworth, Sec'y. _for S. A., Santee Indian Sch., Neb._, 11. Lancaster, Women's Aux., by Mrs. A. J. Bancroft, Treas., 41.63. Lawrence, Samuel White, 50. Lawrence, Lawrence St., 35; Jas. H. Eaton, 5, _for Porto Rico_. Leominster, Mrs. G. H. Wheelock, 5. Malden, First, 81.77. Mattapoisett, 8.75. Marlborough, Union, 82.71. Medford, Mystic, 176.25. Millbury, Second, 39.65. Milton, First Evan., 27.56. Monson, Mrs. Esther R. Holmes, _for McIntosh, Ga._, 30. Monson, 27.52. Newton, Eliot, 140. Newton, Eliot, "A Friend," 5. Northampton, Edwards, 93.58. Northampton, Mrs. S. E. Bridgman, _for S. A., Straight U._, 10. North Dighton, H. M. Soc. of C., _for Big Creek Gap, Tenn._, and to const. MRS. MARY E. HATHAWAY L.M., 40. North Hadley, Second, 30. Newton Center, Maria B. Furber M. Soc., _for Dining Room, Tougaloo U._, 10. Newton Highland, Home M. S. of C., by Mrs. Emily W. Hyde, 2 bbls. Goods, etc. Peabody, West, 9.58. Reading, 15. Rutland, 14.50. Rochester Center, 8.25. Salem, Tabernacle, to const. SARAH P. CHAMBERLAIN and CHARLES E. ADAMS L.M's, 60. Salem, C. E., United Service of South, Tabernacle and Crombie St., 21.59. Shirley, 10. Shrewsbury, 11. Somerville, Winter Hill, 30. South Deerfield, C., 44.48; S., 7. South Hadley, 23. South Sudbury, L. M. Circle, bbl. Goods, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ South Weymouth, Mrs. Joseph Dyer, _for S. A., Jos. K. Brick A. I. and N. Sch., Enfield, N. C._, 25. South Weymouth, Old South, 8. Springfield, First C. of Christ, _for Porto Rico_, 61. Springfield, Hope, 17.89. Springfield, Hope, S., _for Mountain White Work_, 14. Springfield, Mrs. Fred Law, _for S. A., Tougaloo U._, 5. Springfield, Emmanuel, 2. Stoneham, 15.35. Templeton, Trin., C., 12.43. Webster, First, 30. Wellesley, 58.37. West Barnstable, 5. Westford, Union, Mrs. L. A. Keyes, 5. West Springfield, Park St., L. M. Soc., by Mrs. Ethan Brooks, Treas., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._, 73. Williamsburg, Mrs. Helen E. James, 25. Wilmington, 5. Winchester, Mission Union, _for Porto Rico_, 20. Worcester, Union, 191.45; Piedmont, quarterly 35. Worcester, Summer St. _for Mountain White Work_, 15. Worcester, Rev. Willard Scott, 13.14. Worcester, Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Brown, _for McIntosh, Ga._, 5. Wrentham, First, 20.35. ----, E. C., _for Mountain White Work_, 1.

WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND R. I., Miss Lizzie D. White, Treas., $300.00.

W. H. M. A., of Mass. and R. I., _for Chinese M._, 200; _for C. at Fort Berthold, N. D._, 100.

ESTATES.--Andover, Estate of Edward Taylor, by O. B. Taylor, Exec'r, 300. Boston, Estate of Wm. Hilton, 2,526.84. Medfield, Estate of Miss Lydia A. Dow, by Ella T. Haynes, Executrix, 255.18. North Adams, Estate of Ann Eliza Babbitt, by W. D. and Arthur Robinson, Executors, 316.66.

RHODE ISLAND, $463.35.

Providence, Cent'l, 292.22; Beneficent, 92.67. Central Falls, 56.23. Newport, United, quarterly, 9.57. Tiverton Four Corners, 12.66.

CONNECTICUT, $1,104.31.

Berlin, Second, 40. Berlin, Second, S., _for Tougaloo U._, 35. Bridgeport, South, C. E., 5.16. Bridgeport, Olivet, S., _for Mountain White Work_, 1.25. Cheshire, 17.25. Chester, 20.34. Danbury, First, S., _for Porto Rico_, 11.89. Easton, 15.20. Ellington. 62.55. Greenwich, Second, C. E., _for S. A., Lincoln Sch., Ala._, 24. Groton, "In Memory of S. P. C.," 25 Hartford, Miss Clara Hillyer, _for Dining Room, Tougaloo U._, 100. Lyme, Grassy Hill, 4.80. Middlefield, 61.86. New Haven, Ch. of the Redeemer, 192.82; Dwight Place, 40.26. New London, First Ch. of Christ, 46.70. New Milford, "A Friend," 5. Noank, M. H. Giddings, 3. Northford, 13. Norwich, "A Friend," 100. Portland, C. E., by Mrs. F. W. Goodrich, _for Williamsburg, Ky._, 2. Prospect, 12. Salem, 12. Southport, Miss Eliza A. Bulkley, 90. Thomaston, First, 8.79. Trumbull, 3.06. Vernon, 5.52. Wallingford, 55.01. Wallingford, Mrs. B. F. Harrison, 5. Washington, Henry S. Nettleton, _for Porto Rico_, 2. Waterbury, Second, W. M. Soc., 5. Wethersfield, C. (2 of which _for Allen Sch., Thomasville, Ga._), 38.85.

WOMAN'S CONG. HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF CONNECTICUT, by Mrs. Geo. Follett, Secretary, $40.00.

Bridgeport, Park St., 25. Canaan, Pilgrim, 7. Wauregan, 8.

ESTATE.--North Haven, Estate of W. T. Reynolds, by Rev. J. B. Reynolds, Executor, 2 cases Books, _for Theo. Dept., Straight U._

NEW YORK, $564.78--of which from Estate, $83.90.

Angola, Miss A. H. Ames, 5. Bergen, First, 10.82. Binghamton, C. E. Rally at Annual Meeting, 12; Mrs. J. E. Bacon, 10. Brooklyn, "Friend in Central Cong. Soc.," 100. Brooklyn, Lewis Av., Cong. Bible Sch., _for Indian M., Santee, Neb._, and to const. MISS MARY E. C. BARDEN and JAMES S. BRACKENRIDGE L.M's, 75. Brooklyn, MISS LYDIA BENEDICT, to const. herself L.M., 30. Brooklyn, Mrs. Julia E. Brick, _for Jos. K. Brick A., I. and N. Sch., Enfield, N. C._, 30. Brooklyn, Puritan, 26.50. Brooklyn, Willoughby Av., S., _for Porto Rico_, 5. Churchville, Rev. J. W. Norris, _for S. A., Theo. Dept., Straight U._, 5. Corning, First, 3.52. Deansboro, C., _for freight, to Pleasant Hill, Tenn._, 2.01. Lysander, 6.36. Moravia, First, 32. New York, Forest Av., C. E., _for S. A., Fisk U._, 25. New York, Bedford Park, 9.27; Charles P. Pierce, 3.50. Oswego, 8.11. Paris, 5.25. Syracuse, H. A. Flint, 20 cts. Warsaw, 10.59. West Groton, 19.50.

WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF N. Y., by Mrs. J. J. Pearsall, Treas., $46.25.

Brooklyn, Plymouth, Y. W. G., _for Singing Books, A. G. Sch., Moorhead, Miss._, 10. Brooklyn, Lewis Av., C. E., balance to const. MISS J. FRANCES WELLS, L.M., 15. Honeoye, 4. Rochester, South, 15. Wellsville, 2.25.

ESTATE.--Sherburne, Est. of A. B. DeForest, by Chas. A. Fuller, Exec'r, 83.90.

NEW JERSEY, $240.90.

East Orange, Trinity, 129. Elizabethport, First, 10. Paterson, Auburn St., 20. ----, "A Friend," 1.

WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF THE N. J. ASS'N, by Mrs. J. H. Denison Treas., $80.90.

Glen Ridge, Mission Band, _for Indian Boys_, 10. Newark, Belleville Av., 13.40. Washington, D. C. First, Jr. C. E., 7.50. Westfield, 50.

PENNSYLVANIA, $7.00.

Neath, S., _for Porto Rico_, 2.

WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF PENNSYLVANIA, by Mrs. W. H. Clift, Treas., $5.00.

Corry, C. M. Soc., 5.

OHIO, $608.12.

Akron, First, 26. Berea, Mrs. E. M. McKean, 1. Chatfield, Pietist C., _for Indian M._, 45.17. Cleveland, Mount Zion, M. Soc., _for S. A. Jos. K. Brick A., I. and N. Sch., Enfield, N. C._, 11. Collinwood, First, 15. Columbia, 5.20. Grafton, 2.44. Greenwich, First, 5.13. Kingsville, Mrs. S. C. Kellogg, _for Indian M., N. D._, 10. Lenox, 4.70. Litchfield, E. R. Turner, _for S. A., Grandview Acad., Tenn._, 5. Madison, Central, 10.81. Mansfield, First, 120.19. Medina, 148.66, to const. SHERMAN HOFF, N. P. NICHOLS, MRS. FRANCES MAPLE, MABEL HARRINGTON and CHARLES WERTZ, L. M'S. Newton Falls, First, 10.58. Oberlin, Mrs. E. W. Lord, 24 bbls. Goods, _for Jos. K. Brick A., I. and N. Sch., Enfield, N. C._, and 13.42 _for freight_. Parkman, C., "A Member," 6.28. Randolph, "Friends," 6. Tallmadge, S., _for Porto Rico_, 24.27. Windham, First, 8.50. York, 14.

WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF OHIO, by Mrs. G. B. Brown, Treas., $114.77.

Alexis, 3. Bellevue, 8.25. Burton, 20. Cincinnati, North Fairmont, 2.50. Clarksfield, 2.85. Cleveland, First, 15.23; Hough Ave., Jr. C. E., 2.50; Lakeview, 2; Pilgrim, 4.50; Pilgrim, Jun. S., 5; Plymouth, 13. Columbus, Eastwood, 4; Mayflower, 5; Plymouth, 7. Kirtland, 2.72. Litchfield, Jr. C. E., 1.25. Mansfield, Mayflower, Mem., 1.50. New London, 3.50. Norwalk, 75 cts. Toledo, Second, Jr. C. E., 2.50. Washington St., 7.72.

ILLINOIS, $859.19.

Abingdon, C., ad'l, 70 cts. Aurora, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Greenfield, 321.17. Beaver Creek, Joseph Pike, 2.

Chicago, Union Park, 75.21. Chicago, First, 42.53; Englewood, North Ch., 10. Chicago, Union Park, C. E., 15; Millard Av., C. E., 13.85. Chicago, Tabernacle, S., _for Nat. Ala._, 5. Chicago Central, C. E., 2. Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Freeman, for freight and bbl. Goods, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._, 1.

Crystal Lake, 4.50 Danville, Mrs. A. M. Swan, _for Santee Indian M._, 6. Farmington, Mrs. H. B. Haskell, 10. Granville, C. E., 20. Harvey, 13.72. Hennepin, 3. Hinsdale, 18.81. Kewanee (50 of which from H. T. Lay, _for Porto Rico_), 79.86. Lamoille, 10.81. Lockport, 7.82. Marseilles, R. N. Baughman, M. D., dec'd, 51. Marseilles, 20.68. Maywood, 8.25. Mazon, 9. Mendon, 4.63. Moline, First, S., 10; Second, 3.11. Neponset, 6.50. Oak Park, First, S., 13.26. Ontario, C., 5.75; C. E., 2. Princeton, Mrs. S. C. Clapp, 25. Seward, Minooka, First, 12. Stark, 8. Waukegan, German C., 2. Waverly, 4.75. Wyoming, 10.28.

MICHIGAN, $325.16.

Allegan, First, 3.25. Cheboygan, C. E., 1; Jr. C. E., 1. Covert, Mrs. Abigail G. Pixley, deceased, by F. E. Rood, 94.78. Detroit, First, 100; Brewster, S., 4.57. Dorr, 5.60. Grand Rapids, S. Class, by J. J. Lathrop, _for S. A., Pleasant Hill, Tenn._, 8. Salem, Second, 11.26. South Haven, 18. Union City, Mrs. Lydia Lee, 5; C. E., 2.50; Individuals, 2.50, _for S. A., Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ Union City, First, C. E., 2. Watervliet, Plymouth, 15.70. West Bay City, John Bourn, _for Alaska M._, 50.

IOWA, $231.96.

Algona, A. Zahlten, to const. MISS CLARA ZAHLTEN L.M., 50. Cass, 14.60. Clinton, 18.25. Eldora, Chas. McKeen Duren, _for S. A., Grandview Acad., Tenn._, 20. Genoa Bluff, 2.70. Gilbert Station, W. M. Soc., 5, by Mrs. E. B. Stewart, Sec.; C. E., 3.80, _for Porto Rico_. Grinnell, S., 15.74. Harlan, 11.30. Iowa Falls, 5.84. Kellogg, 2.60. Lakeside, 10. Lansing Ridge, German, 2.50. Magnolia, 5.10. Monticello, 16.30. Sheldon, 16.61. Sioux City, First, 31.62.

MINNESOTA, $103.07.