A little old woman, with a white turban bound about her head, opened the door. With a courtesy and warm greeting she offered me a chair. The floor was uncarpeted, but as clean as frequent scrubbings with soap and water could make it.

Two sticks were burning in the open fire-place, before which stood a half dozen flat-irons. Mrs. —— apologized for “bein’ a ironin’ on a Saturday,” and after giving a few finishing touches to a piece on the board sat down to tell me about Clara.

“My husban’ is dead, an’ it is very hard to get an hones’ livin’ an’ keep Clara in school. She ain’t strong, ma’am, Clara ain’t, an’ can’t do much hard work, but she love’ her books an’ want to teach. She was graduate’ las’ year, but nothing would do but I mus’ sen’ her this year. It is mighty hard to get the money, you know, ma’am, but I never can give her nothing but an education. I never had none myself, but, Clara, she is right smart in her books, ma’am. I wants her to be educated.” The same story oft repeated, “the children, the children they mus’ be educated.”

Do you know, now, why those mothers were so happy when listening to the songs and recitations of their children? Can you realize how proud they are when they find that Nehemiah and Charles Henry can read and write like any white boys?

Who will hunt up nine others and be one of ten to save ten cents each month to pay the tuition of one of these children?

RECEIPTS FOR AUGUST, 1883.

MAINE, $222.07.
Bangor. First Cong. Ch., 18.61; Rev.Joseph Smith, 10$28.61
Bluehill. Mrs. E. W. Mayo, 4; Mrs. H. W. J.,15.00
Brewer. First Cong. Ch.12.85
Brunswick. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 69.60;Marshall Cram, 1079.60
Brunswick. Mrs. John D. Lincoln, forSelma, Ala.2.00
Dennysville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.13.02
Ferry Village. Rev. R. D. Osgood10.00
Gorham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.28.38
Gorham. Miss E. B. Emery, for Macon,Ga.3.00
Kennebunk. Union Ch. and Soc.21.61
Limington. Miss A. Boothby4.00
Waterford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.14.00