—A Kaffir Girl’s Worthy Example. One day a Kaffir girl in South Africa went to a missionary and dropped four sixpences into his hand, saying: “This is your money.”
“You don’t owe me anything,” replied the teacher.
“I do,” she answered; “and I will tell you how. At the public examination you promised a sixpence to any one in the class I was in who would write the best specimen on a slate. I gave in my slate and got the sixpence; but you did not know then that another person wrote that specimen for me. Yesterday you were reading in the church about Zaccheus, who said: ‘If I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.’ I took from you one sixpence, and I bring you back four.”
The Indians
Sisseton Agency, Dakota Territory.—Mr. Charles Crissey, the agent, in a brief report, says:
There have been built since I came here in 1879 seven new frame houses, and three others finished that were not habitable when I came, besides a number of log houses roofed and floored. A new engine has been procured and put in place for the flour mill, and the building enlarged to double its former capacity. A barn 21×70 feet has been built; the school building repaired, after six years’ use; the old engine converted into a portable saw-mill; and timber for a new church at Good Will sawed out. The people have been supplied with 95 yoke of work cattle, with yokes and chains complete; also with all the plows, wagons, harrows, etc., that they will need for some time.
I have also had thrown upon my care the Brown Earth Indians, formerly living here, 30 families, now 40 miles away, who are trying to get homesteads like white men. They have been supplied with 20 yoke of oxen, 20 wagons, all tools necessary, including portable forge and tools, also carpenters’ tools, and material for a new school-house.
The Drifting Goose Indians have been quietly disposed of and settled at Crow Creek, D. T., after being on my hands ten months.
Three Indians are now talking of building for themselves frame houses as good and large as the one I live in, provided the Government will furnish half the material required.