Sweet Chariot du lieu suivant : Dunlap, Kansas • 3

how glad I am to hear that you like children, and are fond of education. We are having examination this week. Some of our lessons seem very hard, but I will not let them overcome me. My teacher is kind, and tries to help, me out of my trouble. School will be out next week, and I hope we will have a good time.

I am glad to hear that you love the poor. I hope that you may enjoy yourself this summer. We read in the Bible every day. I have learned the Commandments. I love my teacher, and like to go to school every day.

I would like to hear from you. Your affectionate friend, Vina Jackson. REPLY. Elk Falls, May 25, 18S6. My dear young Sister How glad I am that you are able to execute a letter so beautifully as the one within.

I intend to visit your school some time during the Fall term. Yours trulv, MRS. p. c. philleo.

Dear Mrs. Prudence Crandall It is with pleasure that I sit down to inform you of my health. I am well at present, and I hope these few find you the same. I have heard of you many times, and would like very well to see you or your photograph. I am going to school and enjoy my studies very much.

We are having examination this week, and I hope and trust that I will stand ahead. We have a verv kind teacher here she is the best -teacher I ever went to school to. She takes pains to learn us all she can. I hope you could be here the last day of school. Do write me a long letter.

I will close by saying, good-bye. Your affectionate friend, HENRY L. PEGG. REPLY. Dear Child: The elements of greatness are apparent in your kind letter.

Keep it till you get to be a man that you can see how fast you can improve and how much. Yours trulv, MRS. P. C. PHILLEO.

To Mr. Atchison: It has given me great pleasure to receive this bundle of letters from your dear pupils, over whom, with your dear self and assistants, I greatly rejoice. God bless your dear hearts and your dear pupils. I intend to visit you during your Fall term, if health permits, and it is very good at present. For every good word and woik, lam, yours truly, MRS.

P. C. PHILLEO. Prudence Crandall Philleo. How pleasant and helpful it is to recall the names of men and women who have excelled in wisdom and charity.

I am learning the history of many such, and when I feel sad and discouraged I turn to them for comfort. Their lives reflect the light of God's they already shine as stars upon those who know their history. One of name ought to be treasured by the colored people, lives in this state. Her name in youth was Prudence Crandall she is now the widow of a Baptist minister whose name was Philleo. Before her marriage she was a teacher in Connecticut.

Sympathizing with the colored people, she let a school of white girls leave her that she might open a boarding school for colored girls. A number of these were quickly gathered up by William Lloyd Garrison and sent to her from Boston, Providence and New York. But the people of her town thought a Colored school would ruin them. They remonstrated and mistreated her in ev-erv wav, as thev would a thief or a public enemy. They petitioned the legislature and that body of wise men passed an act declaring this kind lady and Christian teacher an outlaw, and forbidding her lather, mother or sister to visit her or speak to her.

The people of the town set lire to her house, but she extinguished the llames. Then a mob came with sledges and crowbars and broke down all her doors and windows. Thus she was compelled to stop her school. This all happened in 1833-34. Only two years ago the legislature of Connecticut granted this brave woman a pension of 3-10J a year to compensate her for her losses and sufferings in behalf of those Colored girls fifty years At the last examination given the Primary Grammar class in the Academy by our noble assistant teacher, Miss Maggie Watson, she told the class th story of this Quaker teacher of Connecticut, and asked them to direct the letter required of each one in examination to Mrs.

Philleo. This brought to the desk 13 neat and pleasant letters. AsMrs.P.has longshown a deep interest in our work, we forwarded the budget of kind words to her as a token of appreciation from a class of 12-year old boys and girls. Mrs. P.

has kept a life long interest in Christian education and reform work, and bears a fine and tender affection for those wbo engage heartily in this cause. We publish some of the letters and the replies which were written on the back of each before they were returned. Each letter was complete in all the parts, but we may omit the headings of all except the first to save space. I may say for all, what was not allowed in the letters, please ex-case mistakes. Duxlap, Kansas, April 15, 18SG.

My dear Friend: I cannot telly ou My dear Friend I have taken my pen in hand to write you a few lines. I am well and doing well. Would you like to see some pretty flowers? Flowers grow in summer. I love to see the pretty May flowers when they bloom. Some are red, black, blue, green, yellow, and scarlet.

We had examination this week. This coming Saturday week I will go home in the morning and get there in the evening at 5 o'clock. I am at school regularly every day, and go to Sunday-school, church, and Bible reading every Sunday. Mr. Atchison is my Bible teacher.

I will close by saying, write soon. Yours affectionatclv, LEAXNA HALE REPLY. You I call my dear little child, because I think you are trying to improve your mind in every way. Yours truly. MRS.

p. c. PHILLEO. A Lesson for Farmers' Boys who are Wishing for Positions on the R. R.

In 1879 there were 2541 persons killed and 5674 persons injured on the railroads in the United States. -4540 of these accidents happen to employes. 23 accidents happens for every day in the year, and seven of these cause death. In the state of Michigan alone the railroads kill more than 300 persons a year. In five years they killed 1530; enough to form a fine town.

Such a fearful butchery of our brothers and sisters could be prevented. Modern business and society could move a a little slower if necessary. In 1885 there were 546 persons killed, and 2319 injured on the railways of England and Scotland. There are emplo3Tes on the railways in G.B., which is about 100,000 less than in the U. S.

Better be kicked by a mule than crushed by an iron horse. ITEMS SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF THE NEGROES IX THE UNITED STATES. My Dear Friend: I can nt tell you how I would like to see you. I heard that you very kind. I guess all the children you educated are men and women now.

I guess they thank you very much I would. Spring has begun, and flowers are coming up; school will be out next week, and we will gather some for the last day. That's what every person likes, a kind-hearted person like you. We have a kind teacher; I guess you know her. It is nice here where I live.

You live in Kansas, too. Do you like Kansas? Do write to me. our affec ionate friend, ELLA T. MOORE. REPLY.

My Dear Child: It gave me great pleasure to read the letters from you all. Only think how soon you will become teachers, for I know you are learning fast under you'jkind teachers. Yours trulv, MRS. P. C.

PHILI EO. Above 50 patents have been issued by the Government for inventions by colored men during the past fifteen years. The artist, Charles Porter, of Hartford, sent a collection of paintings to the Exposition at New Orleans, valued at J. II. Smith, of Arkansas, sent one painting valued at 8300.

More than twenty 'colored men have written books, among them Douglass, Delany, Crummell and Williams. In manufacturing they may be found making wagons, plows, ornamental brick, furniture, cane mills, cotton screws, brooms.wire and rubber goods, hats and cigars. More than 100 newspapers are published by colored men..