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WHATEVER IS, IS BEST.

BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

I know, as my life grows older,

And mine eyes have clearer sight,
That under each rank Wrong, somewhere
There lies the root of Right.
That each sorrow has its purpose,
By the sorrowing oft unguessed;
But as sure as the sun brings morning,
Whatever is, is best.

I know that each sinful action,

As sure as the night brings shade,
Is sometime, somewhere punished,
Tho' the hour be long delayed.
I know that the soul is aided

Sometimes by the heart's unrest,
And to grow means often to suffer;
But whatever is, is best.

I know there are no errors

In the great eternal plan,

And all things work together

For the final good of man.

And I know when my soul speeds onward
In the grand, eternal quest,

I shall say, as I look earthward,
Whatever is, is best.

For The Intelligencer and Journal.
LURAY REVISITED.

When the scenes of earth have forever faded away from our perceptions, and we enter upon our hoped-for immortal existence, with fresh activities and aspirations and with new enthusiasms, it may be that then some memories will cling to the pilgrims of time, of the joys and consolations, the upliftings of spirit, the glimpses of unconceived things beyond, that varied the monotony and plodding weariness of the earthly probation.

Sorrows, disappointments and perplexities will have disappeared down the long vista of time, but the joyous and heavenly, like strains of remembered melodies and harmonies, will return to enrich and bless the new, strange life of which the lessons are now being learned.

time when the reapers are busy among the golden sheaves, and the fragrant grasses yield up their life for man's enrichment are of almost unequaled beauty, this second day of July, 1885, and it is just an easy day's journey from Philadelphia, westward, to Harrisburg, and thence, southerly, between the distant ridges of the Appalachian hills, to the Potomac, and thence along the continuance of the same valley to the ascending hills of Luray, in Page county, Virginia. The train pauses just at eventide in the presence of the green little town of Luray, and a hotel coach is in waiting to convey us to the new and elegant Luray inn, where is every delight which is needed or desired by the most luxurious. We enter a low, broad doorway opening upon wainscoted halls having bright, open fires roaring up the generous chimneys, courteous and attentive servitors, no appearance of any facilities for drunken revels, broad piazzas, looking forth over fairest mountain slopes, abundance of pleasant seats for restful musing, and all things needful for refinement and for comfort. We were here in 1881, and lodged at an inn in the village, a handsome old house, now gone to decay, with the proprietor an almost continuous drunkard, and everything in his domain as wretchedly dirty and forlorn as could well be conceived, whence we emerged before daylight and departed without even a draught of water (much less milk), to resume our journey, and found our way by the fitful light of a lantern up the rough, stony street to the railway station.

All things are changed. Even the drunken host has grown sober, the rugged streets have been graded and made neat and inviting, the population of the town has increased from about 500 to 1,100, the one manufacture of the locality, that of sole-leather, has much increased and prospers, the cultivation of the land has greatly improved and the weedy fences are being trimmed artistically, the green sward is being shorn to velvety smoothness, elms have been set in avenues. adown the slopes, and a poor, forlorn, dirty Virginia town has been turned into a place of joyance where one might wish to linger many days. But no inducements are held out by the proprietors of Luray Inn to permanent boarders. They say they might have quite filled up their charming house early in the Fifth month, but forbore, knowing their rooms would all be needed for transients. But the Hotel Company are looking toward greatly increasing their accommodations with the view of another

May we not then recall, how, in times we only dimly see in the vanishing past, when the cities of earth grew hot and dusty in the fervid noon of summer, it was permitted us to glide swiftly away from the scenes of our endless endeavor, to the peaceful tranquillities of field, forest and streamlet; by noble river courses, to valleys of the mountains, to solemn forest-clad heights, to caverns of indescribable en-year's demands. chantments, suggesting the realms of Faery, and the halls of the Gnomes? The ancient philosophic dreamers assured their disciples that they might expect to drink of Lethe and forget all sorrows, but there was no expectation that all past joy was to be lost from the background of the passing soul.

"Some moments are to mortals given,

With less of earth in them than heaven."

Moments of rapid movement amid scenes of holy beauty and perfectness, down the fairest valleys of the hills, from glory to glory, in days of peace and blessing, might well photograph themselves on human memory, to be an enduring possession.

The limestone valleys of the Cumberland and Blue Ridge Mountains at the abounding harvest

Early in the morning the omnibus is ready to convey guests to the mouth of the Cavern, about one mile away by an air-line. Everybody knows that such underground chambers are common in limestone regions, being caused by the solvent action of water on the soluble rocks of the earth, and the channels that remain are clothed with their wonderful ornamentation of stalactite and stalagmite by the slow processes of infiltration, and the crystallization of the rock material. The rock out of which Luray Cavern has been excavated is a compact blue limestone of a heterogeneous texture, and the few fossils discovered indicate the lower Silurian of the Trenton limestone epoch. (?)

The official report of the Smithsonian Institution

broad meadows, orchards, and fruitful fields; and on
the left, the azure-tinted peaks of the Massanutton
are seen to approach the line of the Blue Ridge.
Indian wars once made these hills and valleys most
tragical, and the many bloody combats of the Civil
War left terrible memories to linger around these
lovely scenes, but now the observer recalls the Vision
of the Poet of the Island Valley of Avillon:

"Where falls not hail, or rain or any snow,
Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies
Deep-meadowed, happy, fair with orchard lawns,
And bowery hollows crowned with summer sea."
S. R.

Luray, Va., Seventh mo. 3d, 1885.

speaks of its position in the middle of an open valley, distant from the mountains, and so much below their crest, as showing it to be hollowed out toward the close of the epoch within which the formation of the valley took place. The traveler sees everywhere the evidences of the great flexures of the rocks which were a part of the vast convulsions in which the whole Appalachian System originated. The Smithsonian geologists are also of opinion that the formation of this Cavern is not earlier than that of Mammoth Cave or the Wyandotte. A translucent slab of delicately tinted marble on the desk of the hotel shows of what choice material Nature sometimes constructs her underground wonder chambers. The temperature of the Cavern is about 56° Fahrenheit, and the first descent is down a broad flight of square stone steps to a landing fifty feet below the surface. Here the scene which broke upon the vision was not quite like that witnessed in 1881, when each person carried a tin frame holding three lighted candles, and the party were accompanied by a guide who had a store of magnesium torches for the choice and grander scenes. Now the electric radiance despels mysteries and takes somewhat from the weirdness of the scenery while enhancing immensely its beauty. The visitors whose adventure I am now recording are very experienced, and have explored the Fairy chambers and Gnome palaces of many lands; and are not to be expected to fall into raptures over the exquisite varieties of the botryoidal stalactites of the Vegetable Garden or the strange freaks of the Gnome King in the Fish Market, nor shudder at the grim suggestions of Pluto's Chasm with the fresh enthusiastic joy and wonder of the first party I ever accom-nificent row of trees on each side, and was filled with panied, of which more anon.

But they say, that having seen Mammoth, Adlesberg, Wiers and others of fame, they pronounce this far more lovely than any other, and the firm, easy steps are excellent and safe beyond precedent. The electric lighting they deemed a grand success, giving long, glorious vistas, lighting up the lofty arches and showing forth the transparencies and the brilliant variety of borderings and coloring. The "chimes," which result from the vibrations of stalactites which the guide can harmonize into impressive melodies, they considered wondrous indeed, and the "organ was only less surprising. Crystallized waterfalls, statues of unimaginable beauty and grandeur, flitting Ghosts," and grottoes of unnumbered pendants not yet fully opened, the "Fallen Column," the "Saracen's Tent," with its deep, rich, folded draperies drawn aside, filled their souls with a true enthusiasm only second to that of the dear boy, who could say no more after passing from scenes of ever-increasing wonder to new surprises: "My heart is too full ?”

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Yes, it is true that these lovely Caverns can delight supremely the world-weary travelers who have traversed land and sea and know the earth's supreme places, no less than they did the Virginian lads who have yet so much to learn of the beauty and glory of the earth.

For The Intelligencer and Journal. A GLIMPSE OF PARIS, SEVRES, ETC. We did not reach Paris till after Victor Hugo's funeral, so we avoided all the crush and excitement. We saw the wreaths that had been sent, exhibited in front of the Pantheon, the church where he was buried, some hundreds and hundreds of them, made of very handsome artificial flowers.

Paris is a very bright city, and so clean compared to London. Last Third-day we went to the Bois de Boulogne, the favorite park of the Parisians, very large and very pretty. As we came back it was just the fashionable hour for driving, and I think I never saw a handsomer sight than the Champs Elysées presented from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde.

There is a gradual ascent of about a mile from the Place to the Arc, and this wide street has a mag

carriages, a perfect stream the whole time. We were in an omnibus, and had a very good view of it all. The Arc de Triomphe (triumphal arch), built, or begun rather, by Napoleon the First, is on the highest ground in Paris, and stands out above all else when you see Paris from a distance, and commands a very fine view.

On Fifth-day we went to Sevres, by boat on the Seine. It is a small town where the noted porcelain manufactory is, and we were very much interested in watching the process from the rude mass of clay to the shapely cups and vases. One does not wonder that the china is so expensive when we see how much trouble it takes. There was a collection of china on exhibition, and we found it very interesting indeed. One vase was worth ten million francs (a franc is 20 cents). Of course, it was not for sale. It was certainly an exquisite piece of workmanship and could only find an appropriate setting in a palace.

We had a pleasant walk from Sevres to St. Cloud, through a lovely park. At the latter place there is a ruined chateau, where the Germans made their headquarters during the war of 1870 and 1871. We had seen a panorama of Paris, in Berlin, that was painted from that very point, and the view looked very familiar, only with the difference that now everything is fresh and blooming, green trees and ferFrom the door of the Cave house they enjoyed the tile fields, and in the panorama all was desolate; fine view of the beautiful Luray Valley. Fronting, houses broken into, and the fields all trampled. to the east, is the Blue Ridge, with its various out- The ride back on the boat was very pleasant, lying spurs, one of which conceals Thornton's Gap.much pleasanter than traveling by rail. It is amusOn the right, the mountain folds in its embrace the ing how many Guide-books one sees on a trip

like that. It seemed to us half the people we met were either Americans or English.

Sixth mo. 24th, at Antwerp.-We came here via Brussels, which is a very pretty town, but very small compared to Paris. An hour's ride brought us from Brussels, through flat, but interesting farming land. Quantities of wild flowers, some beautiful blue ones that looked as if they might be larkspurs, red poppies, ragged robins, all made the railroad banks quite attractive. Now and then a wild rose lent color to the hedges. Passing the haymakers, some pretty country seats, and some villages, and a few windmills, we were again in Antwerp, our first and our last European town.

It does not look so strange to us now, for we have seen so many not very different. We feel as if we were getting very near home, and so glad. We are charmed with some of the sights here, but will leave the telling till we reach home. F. H.

Antwerp, Belgium.

COMMUNICATIONS.

CIRCULATION OF FRIENDS' LITERATURE.

ESTEEMED FRIENDS:-A good deal is said about supplying Friends with proper literature, we think that increased circulation of FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER AND JOURNAL among them, and others, is the best possible literature they can have.

It would tend to increase interest in the Society by keeping its members alive to the sublime doctrines upon which the Society was gathered by its founder George Fox. The subscription price should be put at one dollar a year, and if this does not give sufficient support to the paper, the deficiency should be made up by the different Yearly Meetings. T. New York, Seventh month 6.

[The price named above would by no means maintain the paper, nor would the plan suggested, we think, be the best, even if it were entirely feasible. It is the desire of the editors to so much increase the circulation of the INTELLIGENCER AND JOURNAL that there may be a modification of the price, but this, as yet, they have not been able to see their way to accomplish. They cordially respond to the interest expressed in this, and in other communications, this,—and in favor of the increased circulation of Friends' literature.-EDS.]

SCATTERED FRIENDS IN THE WEST.

EDITORS INTELLIGENCER And Journal:-Having, in my capacity as overseer, just written a letter of which the following is a copy, it struck me as having in it matter of interest to many members of our religious Society, and tending to awaken a greater interest in its preservation. Owing to the laying down many years ago of the Monthly Meetings of Fall Creek and Center, in Highland and Clinton Counties, Ohio, the members of Grove Preparative Meeting are scattered through three counties, over a space of thirty or forty miles diameter, a circumstance which, with want of ability and zeal, permitted several farailies of Friends to grow up with

out the privilege of meetings, and with very little acquaintance with Friends. Quite a number of these have moved to other States, and to one of them the following letter was addressed. C. B. Sixth month 25th, 1885.

"DEAR L. H.:-Thou wast a birthright member of the religious Society of Friends.

"I, with other overseers of Grove Preparative Meeting, was lately, all night, at the home of thy parents. I knew thy mother and her parents when she was a girl. Never knew a more worthy man than thy grandfather, J. H. I knew also thy grandfather, Č. H. and his wife-more particularly him. He, too, always impressed me as a man noble, faithful, useful and generous. Both these grandfathers have gone to their final home; and the meetings they used to love and attend, have died for the want of other faithful hands to hold them up.

"It was thy misfortune, probably, never to have known much of the Society which they loved and honored, and which was ennobled and adorned by the upright lives and Christian conduct of themselves and other worthies, including the old patriarch Jacob Jackson, whom, in his 97th year, I heard preach at Waynesville Meeting in 1844. He died soon afterwards. I find many of his grandchildren, and more remote posterity, scattered from Westborough to Leesbury, and farther-nearly all having gone to other Societies. Queer, when Friends put no bonds on any, but invite every one to that new covenant, wherein God' writes His law in the heart, and places it in the inward part, so that there is no need to teach, every man his brother, saying 'know the Lord,' for all shall know Him from the least unto the greatest when all have found in their own hearts the clear evidence that 'He hath shown thee, O man!

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what is good,' and that He requires of us, while demanding nothing more, to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God'-to love glorious appearing of, and give diligent attention and obedience to, that 'Grace of God which brings salvation,' and 'hath appeared unto all men, teaching us, that denying all ungodliness and the world's lusts, we should live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world.' By this glorious teaching and Grace of God, all men are instructed in the truth, and love, and justice, are better than falsehood, injustice and hatred, and that the golden rule is good, wherefore we ought to be true and loving and just, and do unto others as we would have them do unto us. Queer, I say that when Friends invite to this holy, pure, faithful and sufficient teacher, who never can be removed into a corner, and needs no interpreter-whose teaching every one is acquainted with, and knows that if all men would be obedient to it, there would be nothing to hurt or destroy, but there would be a universal harmony among the children of men, and we should have a glorious, happy world. Queer, under such circumstances, that our members should go abroad after other lovers, instead of giving their powers and energies to the strengthening of this Society (whose tenets are so few and simple, yet allembracing and all-sufficient) and manifesting, by the good fruits of their lives, the excellency of the power and guide under which they live. Not so queer that

thou shouldst have gone, (as I am told thou hast), to another Society, for, as I said, I guess thou wast never made acquainted with ours.

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"Still, goodness is not confined to any one Society, for the pure light now shineth,' and 'lighteth every man that cometh into the world,' though the darkness' often comprehendeth it not,' and as many as receive it as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God,' and the saved of God. That thou mayest submit to this pure leading is the sincere wish of thy Friend.

"If now, thy circumstances, associations, or other causes, induce thee to prefer membership in another Society, rather than in ours, be so kind as to sign, and return to me the enclosed tender of resignation. "Thine, in the love of the everlasting truth,

CLARKSON BUTTERWORTH."

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THE street car conductors' strike in Chicago has ended by the strikers and the Company coming to an agreement, and it was expected that the running of cars would be resumed as usual on Fourth-day. There are extensive labor strikes of iron-workers in Cleveland, O., moulders at Rochester, N. Y., and saw-mill employees at Bay City, Mich.

THE Commissioner of Indian Affairs has received a despatch from Inspector Armstrong reporting that some of the Cheyennes have broken away from the reservation and gone into the Pan Handle of Texas. The Secretary of War has directed General Augur, at Fort Leavenworth, to send all his available troops to the Indian Territory at once.

LOUIS RIEL, the leader of the recent Rebellion in Canada, was handed over by the military to the civil authorities in Regina, Northwest Territory,on Secondday evening. A Magistrate read the indictment, consisting of six counts, to Riel, who was remanded till the 20th inst. for trial.

York. He had been sick for a long time and his death was not unexpected. He was distinguished as the officer who brought the Egyptian obelisk to New York.

"In

Harvard College library a collection of 688 volumes
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL has just presented to
picked up by him in the last eight years abroad.
the collection are some English and Italian works,
but most of the books are Spanish. There are some
of the greatest variety and value, and none of them
are commonplace."

THE study of the English language is prevailing all over Japan. In Toyama Prefecture every man of means, and even the local officials and police authorities are studying the language. The general belief there is that those who do not know the English tongue are in the rear of civilization.

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A CASE of yellow fever has been discovered in New Orleans, but the Board of Health of that city considers there is no justification for alarm.”

THE U. S. Consul at Marseilles, has informed the State Department that the cholera has reappeared in that city and Toulon, and a general exodus from Marseilles has begun. "The apparent death rate is below the average.

THE deaths in this city last week numbered 409, which was 29 more than during the previous week and 15 more than during the corresponding period last year.

SECRETARY SIMS, of the State Board of Agriculture of Kansas, estimates the spring wheat yield in that State at 1,390,592 bushels, with favorable weather until harvest. This is an increase over last year of 21,482 bushels.

THE Rural New Yorker, "from a careful analysis of over 3,500 special crop reports from its subscribers, practical farmers, in every State and Territory in the Union," estimates that the winter wheat crop will aggregate 210,000,000 bushels and the spring wheat crop 155,000,000, making an aggregate of 365,000,000 bushels, a falling off of 147,000,000 bushels from last year's crops. "Oats will be the largest crop ever harvested. Rye and barley fair crops. The corn area is larger than ever before, and outlook good for an average yield per acre. There will be an average crop of potatoes, and a considerable increase in the acreage of tobacco. The cotton prospects are highly promising, despite the injury from insects in Texas and other places."

In the United States Circuit Court at Baltimore on the 7th inst., Judge Bond affirmed the decree of the District Court awarding three colored women damages of $100 each for having been excluded from first-class Foreign.-The English Parliament reassembled on sleeping apartments on the steamer Sue, after they the 6th. Charles Bradlaugh, who has been several had purchased first-class tickets. This settles the times elected Member for Northampton, but whose question so far as traveling on steamboats on Chesa-seat has been refused him on account of his atheistical peake Bay is concerned. views, presented himself again, but was refused, 263 to 219, permission to take the oath.

THE San Francisco_Bulletin asserts that 6,700 Chinese landed at San Francisco between August 1, 1882, when the Restriction act went into effect, and July 6, 1884, when the amended Restriction act was passed. From the latter date until July 6, 1885, over 8,100 Chinese landed, or 1,400 more in one year under the amended act than during twenty-three months under the original act. This is attributed by the Bulletin to the increase of fraudulently obtained

certificates.

IN the English House of Lords, on the 6th, the Marquis of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the new Government, made a statement of policy. The peace treaty with Russia is to be completed on the terms which the Gladstone Ministry had arranged.

treaty of peace between France and China.
THE French Chamber of Deputies has approved the
has been a severe battle in Annam, at Hué, the capi-
There
tal, between the natives and the French troops, result-

THE house-to-house sanitary inspectors in Phila-ing in a great slaughter of the former.
delphia have visited 23,296 houses, and found 7,798
nuisances.

CHOLERA Continues to be very bad in Spain. The new cases on the 6th inst., were 1,467, and deaths 660 ; on the 7th, 1,700, and 797. The province of Valencia, including the city of that name, make the worst report.

THE Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on the 7th inst., accepted the gift of $10,800 from Professor John Tyndall, of England, for the endowment of a scholarship for the study of physics. THERE is said to be a notable diminution of crime LIEUTENANT COMMANDER GORRINGE, formerly of in Ireland, and the state of the country is unusually the United States Navy, died on the 6th inst., in New | quiet.

NEWS OF FRIENDS.

FISHING CREEK HALF-YEAR'S MEETING.

Fishing Creek Half-year's Meeting of Friends convened at Millville, Sixth month 18th, 1885, and was deemed a season of especial instruction and favor.

We had the acceptable company of Abel A. Hull, a minister from Little Falls Monthly Meeting, Md.; Aaron Borton, a minister from Pilesgrove Monthly Meeting, N. J.; also, David Masters, John Kester, Edward and Roselda Cloud, of Philadelphia; Martha Engle and Anna Livezy, of New Jersey.

love was paid to Westfield Monthly Meeting and
meeting for worship the day following for their help
and strength and encouragement. An aged woman
Friend was present, lacking only one day of being
99 years old. Hugh Judge, Elisha Dawson, Amos
Peaslee and Samuel M. Janney have all attended.
this meeting in the past. It is an old settlement of
Friends. Truth reigned over the meeting on both
these occasions. All were baptized under its influ-
ence. It was a season never to be forgotten.
THOMAS FOULKE.
New York, Seventh mo. 6th, 1885.

JOINT COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS.

There were also in attendance Mary Ann Burgess and Florence Carter from the Indian Industrial School, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

The usual business was transacted (including the We present below extracts from the minutes of three queries answered at this time), exhibiting a the Convention of Delegates representing the seven generally satisfactory state of society. In the wo-Yearly Meetings on Indian Affairs, held at Race men's meeting the extracts from the minutes of the Street Meeting-house, Philadelphia, on the 12th of late Yearly Meeting were read. The subject of Fifth month, 1885. There were in attendance repchanging the time of holding the Half-year's Meet-resentatives from Philadelphia, New York and Baling from the Sixth and Twelfth months to the Fourth timore. and Tenth months was introduced by the report of the joint committee appointed at our last Half-year's Meeting, in favor of the change. When considered by the meeting in joint session way did not open at this time for the proposed change. The youths' meeting was held the following day. The attendance was very large. Many Friends and others were present from five counties besides our own. Rebecca Fravel, of Philadelphia, was present at this meeting. The Gospel labors of our ministering friend were a call to practical righteousness and to the peace attained by living in the Divine harmony, and solemnized many minds present. An appointed meeting was held at this place on Fifth-day evening, at Rhorsburg on Seventh-day evening, and at Pine Summit on First-day evening. These meetings were well attended, and much interest manifested. Abel A. Hull attended Roaring Creek meeting, at ten o'clock, on First-day, the 21st inst., and an appointed meeting at Catawissa, at two o'clock in the after

noon.

F. M. E.

GENESEE AND WESTERN MEETINGS.

The late Genesee Yearly Meeting, at Bloomfield, Ontario, is acknowledged on all hands, by every one whom the writer has heard express an opinion, to have been a deeply interesting occasion-one of much fervor of spirit and broad philanthropy in feeling, calculated to awaken religious thought and strengthen conviction. In short, it was a season of much Divine favor, instruction and edification to the members of our religious body who were privileged to be present. This is not only cause of comfort and satisfaction, but of cheer and encouragement: "The righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

A few days after the close of the meeting the writer was privileged to mingle with Friends in their religious meeting at Richmond, Ind., as well as at their Monthly Meeting, which were both seasons of much Divine favor, enjoyed by visitor and visited alike. The flocks were watered and the seed strengthened. A committee of the Quarterly Meeting was joined by the writer, and, on invitation, a visit of Gospel

Interesting letters from John J. Cornell, of Genesee Yearly Meeting, Samuel S. Tomlinson, of Ohio, William C. Starr, of Indiana, Joshua L. Mills and Sidney Averill, of Illinois, members of the Indian Committees of their respective Yearly Meetings, expressive of their continued interest in behalf of the Indian, were received, read and directed to be filed with other documents relative thereto.

Baltimore Friends members of the Executive Committee submitted a report of their labors at Washington since the last meeting of the Convention, which was read and approved.

The report states that

Flandreau and Ponca Agency, tendered his resigna"Isaiah Lightner, Agent of the combined Santee, tion as Agent, but the Government failed to appoint any one to succeed him; as winter approached, Lightner, not wishing to move during the cold weather, requested that he be allowed to remain until spring, and his resignation was revoked.

'In the second month last the President of the United States issued a proclamation opening up the Santee Indian reservation to white settlers on and after the fifteenth day of May, 1885. This involved the necessity of the Indians having their lands allotted to them previous to that time.

"The Commissioner of Indian Affairs decided that

the Santee Indians should not only have allotted to each male member of the tribe over 18 years of age 160 acres of land, as provided for by treaty, but that each child should receive 80 acres, as provided by act of Congress passed at the same time the treaty was ratified.

"This ruling was a part of the instructions of the Commissioner to Agent Lightner and gave great satisfaction to the Indians.

"The white settlers of the neighborhood were very much opposed to the Indians getting so much land, Commissioner changed, but we have exerted our inand made a great effort to have the ruling of the fluence to prevent the change being made and we now think the Secretary's ruling will prevail.

"The President's proclamation directed that the Third month 15th, one month previous to the opening allotment of lands to the Indians be completed by up of the reservation to white settlers, and this required a vast amount of work to be done by the Agent

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