acquired special fitness for this new field by his work for several years as Field Superintendent. He will be especially welcomed to the charge of the Indian field by those who are particularly interested in that department of our work, and he has made himself intimately acquainted with the mountain people. We anticipate very favorable results from the new arrangement.

EDITORIAL NOTES.

CHINESE WOMEN AND GIRLS.-Much has been done in California for the Chinese men and boys; almost nothing for the women and girls. On another page will be found letters from Rev. Dr. Pond and Miss Minnie G. Worley, M.D., which point to an inexpensive yet efficient way in which much may be done for these secluded women and girls. We invite the reader's attention to these letters, and ask for special gifts to aid in the work. Money may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Bible House, New York, or to Rev. Wm. C. Pond, D.D., 418 Bartlett Street, San Francisco, Cal., donors being requested to say that the money is for this special object.'

SUCCESSFUL COLORED PEOPLE.-We intend to publish in subsequent numbers of the MISSIONARY a series of sketches entitled, "Successful Colored People." They will be faithful and vivid pictures of colored people, male. and female, who have achieved success in the several walks of life as teachers, preachers, physicians, farmers, mechanics or in business.

While the mass of this people are still very poor and ignorant there are some who have won their way in spite of all obstacles, thus demonstrating that the race has talent and energy, giving hope and cheer for those that are behind, and encouragement to those of other races who would help them. An article on another page headed, "How One Colored Man 'Got On,'" though not written for this series, is a fine illustration of success in the walks of humble life.

BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.-We invite attention to the pages in this magazine devoted to the Bureau of Woman's Work. The messages from "Unions" will be read with interest and also the Report of the Secretary.

MISS JULIA ANDREWS.

Many hearts will mourn as the knowledge comes to them that Miss Julia Andrews is dead. Her pastor writes of her: "She was universally beloved and admired, not only in the school but throughout the community. Her goodness, made the more potent by her wise discretion and kindness of heart, disarmed prejudice, and won confidence everywhere for the school."

But it is not alone in the circle of friends at Orange Park, Fla., where she filled the place of matron, but in many another place where she has faithfully served her Master in mission work that she will be mourned. Always kind and

cordial, she had the gift of making even strangers who might visit the homes where she presided, feel the hearty welcome she was ready to give.

Her disease was typho-malaria, from which she seemed rapidly recovering, when her zeal led her to resume duties too arduous, and produced a relapse under which she sank. Her sister, Miss Fanny Andrews, was with her, but only in time to take her last farewell.

UNIQUE PLAN OF BENEVOLENCE.

REV. F. F. LEWIS, PUTNEY, VT.

A little more than a year ago in our Sunday-School, we had a concert exercise for the Homeland Circle. On the wall was placed a large circle of pasteboard bearing the words, "Lift up your eyes and look on the fields." This was our fence.

A short paper, describing each of our seven societies, was read by a member of the school, who hung within the circle a disc of pasteboard, giving the date, initials and purpose of the society just described. These were our fields. Mite-boxes were given out to all who would take them and promise to put in a penny each week. These were our seed-corn boxes. At the end of the year the seed-corn was to be collected and planted in the fields.

That the planting might be with zeal according to knowledge, at regular intervals through the year the work of each society was presented to the members of the school, either by some worker in the field, or by the pastor. The work of the American Missionary Association came last in order. Frequently, also, the superintendent would drill the school upon the meaning of the initials of the Societies. After the American Congregational Union had been called and the name given, it was a great delight to him to say, "Now who is up to date and can give the present name of that society?" and hear some bright boy call out, "Church Building Society."

At the close of the year an entertainment was given, called "The Japan ese Wedding."

All who presented mite-boxes at the door were admitted free. Others paid an admission fee which went to swell the general fund. On the following Sunday slips of paper were distributed, and each one voted in what field he would plant the seed. You will be pleased to know that half of the votes were for the American Missionary Association. Other fields had varying proportions. These devises are simple, but they help to increase the interest. in mission work.

SOUTHERN VIEW ON THE RACE QUESTION.

What is wanted in South Carolina is not so much separate cars for blacks and whites as good order and decent behavior on the trains. It is due to the well-behaved people of both races and both sexes that they should not be subjected to the annoyance of riding with rude and boisterous persons of either race or sex.

It is not to be inferred from this remark that disorderly conduct on the cars in this State is a rule. On the contrary, passengers, both white and black, are usually quiet and well-behaved, but when disorder does occur there is no means for its suppression.

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The white people of South Carolina may be so blind in their race prejudice as to let it stand in the way of their commercial progress and traveling convenience. They have done so in the past, and South Carolina is recognized as one of the least progressive States in the Union. It will remain so as long as the white people nurse their pride and are willing to ride in a third class railway carriage to be exclusive, rather than in a first-class carriage where the colored man's right to a seat he is willing to pay for is as good as their own. Charleston News and Courier.

SOUTHERN VIEWS ON NEGRO EDUCATION.

It has been said that the South is jealous of Northern interference in the education of the colored people, but we give below, a Southerner's opinion that the South should leave this work to our Northern brethren." A writer in the New York Observer (December 1st, 1892), evidently a minister of the Southern Presbyterian Church, says:

The work among the colored people in this country has always been discouraging, and the conviction is gradually being forced upon us that it will be wiser to leave this work to our Northern brethren.

Our Assembly in 1891 created a separate committee for this work, and its energetic secretary has worked to the utmost of his ability, yet the advance has been almost imperceptible. Whether this is due to a prejudice existing in the Negro's mind against the Southern white, or whether the genius of Presbyterianism is not suited to the emotional nature of the Negro, time alone can determine. While discouragements have generally attended the work among the Negroes, that among the whites has received, these recent years, an impetus that is full of promise for the future.

ITEMS.

"You are

A brother in his prayer alluded to God's greatness in this way : so broad we cannot go round you. You are so broad we cannot go over you. You are so broad we cannot go under you.”

A sister in expressing her gratitude for blessings received said: "I feel like a loaded wagon." Referring to what is often called sowing wild oats, she said: "We do not need to get pickled in sin before we seek religion."

"My good Methodist brother who comes into our meetings occasionally, prayed for me the other night in these words: 'Good Lord bless our brother who is about to mount the gospel horse and ride out into the great ocean of truth; be to him horse, saddle and bridle.'"

THE SOUTH.

HOW ONE COLORED MAN "GOT ON".

REV. R. C. HITCHCOCK.

"How did you manage to get a start in life, Mr. K.?”

“Well, Professor, it all come about through 'jubrees'" (dewberries, the low-growing blackberry of the South).

"Tell me about it."

"Ye see, the war give me my freedom, but nothin' else. I had a wife and we went to live in a little cabin seven miles above Vicksburg, but we had very few clothes, and as work was scarce and workers plenty, it was hard to make bread from day to day. I used to go down to the city and hang around for any sort of a job and glad was I if I could tote home a little bacon and meal. One day I happened to see some jubrees for sale in a store and found they would bring a good price. This gave me a notion, for I knew they were plenty around our place, and I hurried home. As soon as we could see, next morning my wife and I were out in the patch and as soon as we got a bucket full I started with it for Vicksburg. They sold right off and I carried home the best lot of provisions we had had for a long time.

"That seven miles never was so short before. The next day we got two buckets full. They was a trifle heavy before I got there, but they sold just like the others. I kept this up as long as the berries lasted, taking down two buckets every day except Saturdays, when I took three, one in each. hand and one on my head. There was a right smart lot of people from the North in Vicksburg at that time and they tuk to them berries, and I got a big price for 'em.

"We just settled it that we must save every cent till we got a start, and we didn't touch a dollar of that money only enough to just live. We worked at other things as we got a chance. Next year when berry-time come around I bought a mule and cart, got all the people around to pick for me and went every day to market. At the end of that season I had money enough to buy a piece of land and got in some cotton. It all helped, but I stuck to the jubrees for a long time and feel that I owe my success to them. Once a man gets a start, if he is willing to work hard, let whiskey and tobacco alone and keep away from excursions, he can get on well enough. I now own four hundred acres of land with plenty of stock to run it, a good cotton-gin, live in a good house, and have a pretty nice sum in the bank. I picked up a little education and have been a preacher now for a good many years. I'm bound to give my children a good education, and I want 'em to know how to work. I

have never been happier than when I was toting those buckets of berries seven miles in the hot sun, for I was free and felt that when I earned a dollar it was mine. I shall always thank the Lord for 'jubrees '."

HOW A WOMAN “GETS ON."

Mrs. Lizzie Young, a colored woman of Jacksonville, Fla., has established quite a draying business in that city. She owns three drays and employs from twenty to thirty more when occasion requires. She pays each drayman $1.50 a day, calling fourteen loads a day's work. At present she is employed in hauling away the sand from the excavation on the Govern. ment lot, and so far has sold every particle of sand dug out. Mrs. Young knows by face and name every drayman in her employ. But draying is not her only business. For six months every year this enterprising young woman runs an extensive wood-yard at North Springfield, and four or five teams are kept busy delivering wood. Besides this, she sells many hundreds of dollars' worth of pork every year, and does a good trade in poultry and eggs.-From Head and Hand.

STRUGGLES TO SECURE EDUCATION FOR A SISTER.

LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF FISK UNIVERSITY.

Allow me to express my thanks to you for promise of aid in securing work for me and for allowing my sister work. Since I wrote you, the child has come home from work bringing with her $35, money she made from June 11th to September 3d. She is sixteen years old, and has worked as hard as a woman, trying to make it possible to go to Fisk. I had no idea that she would do half so well, and I feel more than ever inclined to make every sacrifice I possibly can for her. I have sewed all the summer, saving my earnings to have our house, which has heretofore been almost too cold to live in, repaired, but now I do not think I shall use the money for that, but I will add it to the $35 of my sister, and thus enable her to go to Fisk. The child is so anxious to get an education that I intend to do all in my power to aid her.

She has a talent for vocal and instrumental music, loves to read, and has a good brain-that is if I am capable of judging. I want her to go straight through college, taking music as well. She often comes across things in reading that she can't understand, and if I am unable to enlighten her she says, "Well, if I take a college course will I know all about such things?" I tell her "yes," and then she adds, "If there is any way to go through college I mean to go." It makes me feel a little behind when she tells me this, and I think the only way the deficiency can be compensated for is to give her what I could not get. Poor mamma toils so earnestly every day she is able for us, and still says she wants her girls all to graduate from Fisk, and says that she thinks God will spare her to see that all of us are educated, and are a power in the world. I often wish I possessed more energy and courage. Nothing seems to daunt her, she has so much faith