Teachers,
Alameda, Mrs. George Morris, Alameda, Cal.
Marysville, Miss M.A. Flint, Marysville, Cal.
" " Lena Ewing, " "
Oakland (Japanese), N. Kosaki, Oakland, Cal.
" (Chinese), Mrs. M.D. Kurtz, " "
Oroville, " Maria Topping, Oroville, Cal.
Petaluma, " M. H. Colby, Petaluma, Cal.
" " R. Carrington, " "
Sacramento, Yong Gin, Sacramento, Cal.
" Mrs. M.A. McKenzie, " "
San Diego, Quon Newey, San Diego, Cal.
San Francisco.—Central,
A.L. Worley, San Francisco, Cal.
" " " Miss L.F. Lamont, " " "
" " " Mrs. M.A. Green, " " "
" " " Loo Quong, " " "
" " —Barnes,
Mrs. H.W. Lamont, " " "
" " " Ny Hing, " " "
" " —West,
Miss F.N. Worley, " " "
" " " " Rosa Lamont, " " "
Santa Barbara, Mrs. E.M. Shattuck, Santa Barbara, Cal.
Santa Cruz, " L.A. Osgood, Santa Cruz, Cal.
" " Pou Fang, " " "
Stockton, Mrs. M.B. Langdon, Stockton, Cal.
THE SOUTH.
NOTES IN THE SADDLE
BY FIELD-SUPERINTENDENT C.J. RYDER.
I write these notes under the shadow of the great affliction that has fallen upon the A.M.A. in the death of Dr. Powell. Although he was at the head of another department of A.M.A. work, we always knew that we had in him a kind and thoughtful friend, and one who would cordially co-operate with the other officers in their far-reaching plans for the development of the work, even though it added to his cares and burdens in gathering the funds necessary to carry out these plans. We who have our work and responsibilities in the field, no less than those who were in the office with Dr. Powell, would bear our tribute of love, and scatter the blossoms of holy memories upon this new-made grave.
Two State Associations of unusual interest were held during the month of November. The Central South Association met with the Trinity Church, in Athens, Ala., Nov. 3d. This Association includes the churches of Tennessee and two or three of those in Alabama. The reports from the churches were very complete. Only one church in the Association was without regular ministerial services, and that church had recently lost its pastor by death. They are now supplied by a competent and faithful minister. The temperance question was discussed with great enthusiasm. The influence of Fisk University on the right side, during the recent prohibition battle in Tennessee, can scarcely be over-estimated. Many expressed the judgment that the argument of the Southern whites, that the colored people defeated prohibition, was not true. One pastor reported that his county went almost solidly against prohibition, and there was only one colored man in the county, so far as he knew, and he was a staunch prohibitionist. Some argued that while so many churches and Women's Christian Temperance Unions and Young Men's Christian Associations shut out respectable colored people, and saloons welcomed those who were not respectable, it would be a difficult task for the better class to induce the more ignorant to vote against those who welcomed them and in favor of those who shut them out. Is there not considerable force in their arguments?