s of the Band of Hope. Our young people who are to teach in the
country are quite determined to organize bands and to fight for "God and
home and native land," on the line of temperance. We have given all the
instruction and illustrations we could, and the little ones are becoming
leaders of the older members in the families. One little boy urged his
old grandmother to stop using snuff, and she has given it up after using
it more than twoscore years. She said he used to say, "Don't chew,
grandma; the teachers say it is poison." Some mothers who have been in
the habit of using ruinous alcohol medicines for their children, assured
me they would stop it, after seeing the amount of alcohol contained, as
was shown by our little experiments in evaporating and burning. One
young man of twenty years old passed an examination in the country, and
obtained a second grade certificate, and at sixteen years of age he did
not know his letters. Are there many boys at the North who can show a
better record in four years?

H.I. MILLER.

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MACON, GA.

I am sure you want to hear about the closing exercises of our cooking
class. The teacher had given the seven girls comprising the class the
privilege of getting a dinner and each one inviting a guest. One of the
lovely things about the affair was that the guests were the mothers and
teachers of the girls. So at three o'clock one day a company of eighteen
sat down to a dinner that was all cooked and served by these girls. The
white, puffy biscuits, well-cooked meat and vegetables, and the quiet
lady-like serving, all testified to the excellence of the instruction
received. Prouder mothers I never saw than those who then partook of
their daughter's cookery. I was told that every Saturday it had been the
custom for the girls at home to repeat in their own kitchens the work of
the day previous, as it had been done under their teacher's
instructions.

We hope next year with our boarding pupils to do more than we could with
only day pupils. Our sewing classes are this week finishing their work
for the year. There has been sewing in five rooms. The primaries have
pieced blocks for outsides for two quilts, over-hand work. The next
grade has put together four outsides (running). The upper classes have
made fifty pillow-cases, twelve sheets, forty aprons, hemstitched three
tray cloths, outlined one tidy and made three night-dresses. Darning,
button-hole