THE Emperor of Brazil has given Prof. Lacerda $20,000 for his discovery of permanganate of potassium, hypodermically injected, as an antidote for the bite of the cobra. ROSE CULTURE.-Two gardeners who have gone extensively into the raising of rose bushes near Savannah have sold this year 20,000 bushes to persons in the North, and had orders for 50,000 which they could not fill. They get from $10 to $20 per 100 for them. Over 500,000 rose bushes are annually imported from Europe, but it is said that Georgia has a better climate for their production than even the south of France. On the first of the month there were sold at the Philadelphia Post-office five hundred and fifty thousand of the new two cent letter postage stamps; cash proceeds, $11,000. In the city of New York the correspondent of the Public Ledger states "the sale of the new two cent stamps began after midnight of the 30th ult., and, from then until the close of business on the 1st., 1,250,000 had been taken, and also 400,000 two cent envelopes. There was a long line of purchasers before the sale windows during the entire day." "IT will not be long," says the Chicago Evening Journal, in speaking of the new Manual Training School of that city, "before the kindergarten will be made a permanent part of the public school system in every considerable city, as the first act in the great educational drama of the people, while at the other end of the plan we shall see the technical institute and the manual training school established, and doing their grand part, in which preliminary instruction in all the trades will be given that are embraced by the phrase 'skilled labor.' THE DRY YEAR IN NEW ENGLAND.-The summer of 1883 will long be remembered in New England on account of the remarkable drought, which has proved so disastrous to the crops. Although in the cities the effect is not so apparent as in the country, the brown lawns and faded hedges here show the need of refreshing showers, while the frequent reports from the Water Board of the rapidly decreasing supply of water keep before the people the fact that great economy in the use of water must be practiced. On the 24th of last month the long drought was ended by a rain storm, which began in Boston soon after two o'clock in the afternoon and continued until nearly three o'clock in the morning. At times the rain fell quite fast, and the total amount recorded at the Signal Service Office was .83 inch. In ordinary seasons this amount would prove sufficient for some time, but the earth has become so parched that it will take many such storms to fill the springs before the frost closes up the ground.-Boston Transcript. THE Post-office Department has just had its attention called to an ingenious method of raising the figures of the new postal notes. The plan consists in punching from a high figure in the note a piece of paper of the proper shape and size to fill up the hole previously punched by the postmaster through a lower figure. The written words or figures are then removed by acids, and blank filled in to correspond with the punched figures. Some of the notes have been changed so skilfully that it is very difficult to detect the alterations. The A RAFT of timbers intended for spiles was brought from St. John, N. B., to New York city, after a voyage by steam tows of three weeks. The distance is six hundred miles, an average of sixty miles per day. raft, if such it can be called, was eight hundred feet long and thirty feet wide, drawing about eight feet of water. It was formed by sections of eleven cribs, each containing about five hundred spiles of sixty-five feet length. Over and around the sections, great chains were wound. Between cach cargo there was a wide space to allow free working of the raft in a rough sea. goes weigh about two hundred and fifty tons each; and it would have cost about twentyfive thousand dollars to bring them to New York by sailing vessels, as the boats engaged in this kind of transportation demanded extra pay on account of the size of the raft. The raft was towed by two powerful tugs. NOTICES. The car Circular Meeting at Radnor, on First-day, Tenth mo. 21st at 3 o'clock P. M. By appointment of the Committee of Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting. A Conference on Temperance, under the care of the Quarterly Meeting's Committee, will be held at Friends' Meeting-house, Radnor, on First-day, Tenth month 14th, at 21 P. M. Also, at Merion, on First-day, the 21st of Tenth month, at 21⁄2 P. M. Train leaves Broad Street Station at 1 P. M. and returns to City at 5.41. All are invited. FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER. “TAKE FAST HOLD OF INSTRUCTION; LET HER NOT GO; KEEP HER; FOR SHE IS THY LIFE. VOL. XL. PHILADELPHIA, TENTH MONTH 20, 1883. No. 36. EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY AN ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS. 00XIUNICATIONS MUST BE ADDRESSED AND PAYMENTS MADE TO JOHN COMLY, AGENT, AT PUBLICATION OFFICE, No. 1020 ARCH STREET. TERMS:—TO BE PAID IN ADVANCE. The Paper is issued every week. The FORTIETH Volume commenced on the 17th of Second month, 1883, at Two Dollars and Fifty Cents to subscribers receiving it through mail, postage prepaid. SINGLE NUMBERS SIX CENTS. It is desirable that all subscriptions should commence at the beginning of the volume. REMITTANCES by mail should be in CHECKS, DRAFTS, or P. O. MONEY-ORDERS; the latter preferred. MONEY sent by mail will be at the risk of the person so sending. AGENTS:-Edwin Blackburn, Baltimore, Md. Benj. Strattan, Richmond, Ind. Entered at the Post-Office at Philadelphia, Penna. as second-class matter ILLINOIS YEARLY MEETING. (Concluded from page 546.) The following letter from the Clerk of the “Convention of Delegates" was read in connection with the several letters and reports presented by the Indian Committee. "Several matters of importance relating to Indian Affairs have claimed my attention since the adjournment of our Convention, in Philadelphia, in the Fifth month last, amongst them will most probably be the resignation of Isaiah Lightner, our last Indian Agent, on account of which I have thought it best to invite Friends of the different Yearly Meetings to send delegates to a Convention, to be held in Baltimore, on 30th of Tenth month next, at 7.30 o'clock P. M. "The project of establishing a school for Indian children continues to exercise the minds of some Friends in New York and Philadelphia, and recently we have been invited to take a part in mission work among the Navajo Indians in New Mexico. | made a report of their work, which was approved, and they authorized to draw upon the Yearly Meeting Treasurer for the sum of $5.44. They are also authorized to draw upon our Treasurer for our quota of the Union's expenses at its approaching session. The committee is continued for further service the ensuing year. This report gives an extended summary of the work undertaken and the correspondence with other Yearly Meetings on the subject, and concludes: "Our convictions have increased in force with our experience, that work such as contemplated by the Union is urgently demanded in the interests of suffering humanity; in behalf of a higher standard of Christian duty towards our fellow-men, and in behalf of the life and growth of our religious body. Also, that this work can be better done under the joint counsel of members from each Yearly Meeting than by separate bodies. Under these convictions we feel that we should continue to steadily and patiently labor for a strong, earnest organization that shall, in one The proposition of our friend Sidney way or another, represent the best strength Averill, to take charge of thirty Indian chil- and wisdon of the whole body, and therefore dren under the conditions named by the recommend that a judicious committee be Commissioner of Indian Affairs, was consid- appointed for further service, and suitable ered, and it was thought best to let the sub-representatives to attend the meeting of the ject rest for consideration during the ensuing Truly, a wide field is open for labor amongst these wards of the nation." Union, to convene at 10 o'clock, the 26th of Tenth month next, at Baltimore, both committee and delegates having your confidence sufficiently to be left at liberty to act as occasion arises, within the limits of our common purpose, as best wisdom may require. Signed on behalf of the Committee, J. W. PLUMMER, Clerk." The temperance committee presented an interesting report. Its work and recommendations were approved. The committee is authorized to draw upon the Treasurer for the amounts named in the report, if needed. The committee is continued with slight changes. The letter to our membership was presented by the committee of Women Friends having it in charge, read, approved, and directed to the Revising Committee for publication with the minutes, and as a leaflet to the number of 2,000. The letter is as follows: Dear Friends: Through the gentle touches of the Heavenly Father's love, you have been brought into remembrance, and we desire to manifest it by a letter of tender sympathy, not forgetting the time when many of us were so situated that we could not mingle in sweet The committee on First-day School Interests made a report, and is continued for fur-communion with our friends. As we have ther service during the coming year. The committee on Isolated Friends and Literature made the following interesting report, which is satisfactory, and the committee continued for service during the coming year. Abel Mills is continued as Librarian in charge of the Literary Depository. felt this vital breath of a pure spiritual life drawing us into a holy oneness, we have desired that our absent members might become partakers with us, for while circumstances may prevent you from being here in person, we believe many have been with us in spirit. We realize how meaningless words seem when we try to convey the deep experiences of the soul, but as we fill them with the life in our minds, they touch the life in other minds, showing that man's extremity is often God's opportunity. There is a strong cord that binds the Christian's heart to every thread of vital truth, and draws it to recognize the endeavors that are put forth even under adverse circumstances, and whether great or small, to bring life, light and fellowship to that heart. "We have not been unmindful of the great field of labor which has been assigned us, and as we have been employed in the various branches, there has been a feeling of benefit, both with those who have been visited and the visitors, that has been felt to be material, and to a degree that we have evidence to believe will strengthen us and them in the spiritual life. Correspondence has been pretty generally entered into with results bearing sheaves that are laden with rich grain. We are often reminded of the language of Meetings have been visited that would come Jesus to the women of Samaria : "The hour under the head of Isolated, and in these sea- cometh and now is, when neither in this sons of silence, and in the little testimonies mountain nor yet in Jerusalem shall ye worthat were offered, a living spiritual strength ship the Father, but all who worship shall was believed to abound to the furtherance of worship Him in spirit and in truth, for He the cause of truth in its simplicity. When seeketh such to worship Him." We rejoice we consider that the bounds of our Yearly in the belief that this hour has come to us, Meetings are very widely extended, and that and that all are coming to the realization of a large number of our members are scattered that vital truth. He seeketh such, implies a far from each other, preventing any frequent power drawing us that is not of our own social union, our sympathy for their isolation begetting. God is a father touched with springs warmly to our hearts. In the love of a feeling of our infirmities, and comes to our God that always blends with and gives frater-aid when our human will can give no peace nity to the love of man, we have desired to mingle with these as often as was possible. Your committee, while having endeavored to do its duty, has to confess that it has only entered the borders of this great gospel field. We have made social visits, scattered many leaflets, and sent many copies of our Yearly Meeting minutes. We trust that these offerings all tend to the revival of a feeling that binds us to them, and them to us, and believe this is a mission never to be fully met or finished by a committee alone. We recommend a continuance of the same care in the future. "On behalf of the committee, ABEL MILLS." to the soul. Under the universality of His love, like begets like, and life stirs life. We feel to encourage all to hold fast that faith which constitutes the connecting tie between the members of Christ's church of every name, that while scattered far and wide, many of us unknown to one another as to the flesh, we may yet feel the pulsations of the great heart that touches the seed in the soul of man, causing it to germinate wherever it may be found, whether in sunshine or shade, bearing fruit to the same pure vital truth emanating from the grace of God. As it is nourished in the inner life it becomes a strong refuge. We all experience trials and temptations, and through these, as we come to un derstand the contest between the spirit of God and the human will, we are purified and made strong to go forth, each in his own field of labor, remembering that while there are various qualifications experienced they are all for the one great end. We all realize the daily duties of life, the claim they have on us and the many crosses we have to bear; but as we come into the illumination of spiritual regeneration all become pleasant duties; then as we are not permitted to go up to our Jerusalem to the Yearly feast, we find that there is one prepared in the tabernacle close beside our own threshold to which we are invited, and where our praises and thanks can ascend to the same throne and be recorded in the same book of life. We rejoice in this, and while we are receiving the blessing of social and religious intercourse, we believe there is as true a faith, as high a hope, as clear a light, for the absent as there is to us, through obedience to the divine will. We beseech all to ask that they may receive, and thus the lengthened thread of spiritual life and concern may not be severed, remembering that the word of God is nigh each one of us, even in our hearts, and that to do the best we can is enough. Angels can do no more. Under a feeling of our fraternal kinship we send this greeting, and are your friends. The committee on Dining Hall made a report, which was satisfactory, and the committee continued for service next year. They are left at liberty to lease the dining hall to any suitable person willing to furnish the needed meals at Yearly Meeting time, or take such other course as they think best, the Yearly Meeting assuming the expense incurred. The committee to which was referred the question of furnishing a history of the rise and progress of our religious body, for incorporation in a history of the State, made a report, which was approved, and the Friends named were appointed to prepare such history as may be needed, and present to our representative committee for its consideration. Under a sense of gratitude to our Heavenly Father for the rich blessings and fellowship attending our gathering during the past week, we now adjourn, until the usual time next J. W. PLUMMER. year. the It may be interesting to add, that all the reports were read in Joint Session, as is custom of this Yearly Meeting. MANY compliment themselves on being repelled by a dead Christianity, who should rather blame themselves for not being drawn to a living one.-T. T. Lynch. INDIAN ADVANCEMENT. The Seventh Annual Report of Isaiah Lightner, agent of the Santee and other Indian tribes, giving an extended account of the progress these people have made, was read at the late session of Illinois Yearly Meeting. It embraces so much that is of interest that, with a few omissions, it is herewith presented.-EDS. The Santee Reservation is located in Knox County, Neb., bounded on the north by the Missouri river, is twelve miles wide, and from twelve to eighteen long, according to bends in river. It contains 115,000 acres, about one-third of which can be used for agricultural purposes. The land has been surveyed and allotted in severalty to a number of families. They have cultivated this year 1,043 acres to wheat, 420 oats, 920 corn, 25 rye, 126 barley, 175 potatoes, etc. Crops of all kinds are very good, better than last year, except corn which has been neglected. 328 acres of land broken this year, making a total of 3,035 acres under cultivation, against 450 acres in 1872. The average has been gradually increased from year to year, and the rations withdrawn in accordance with their ability to support themselves; always pinching the lazy ones or those that were behind, the hardest. The issue of rations has quite recently been entirely discontinued to all except children attending school and about 100 old infirm persons, whom we must continue to support the same as among whites. All wear citizen's dress, and as the young grow up who have attended school, they, as a tribe, are better calculated to transact business of all kinds with their white neighbors who are gathered around them, than the older Indians are. I hope in a short time to be able to recommend the opening up of the reservation and placing the Santee Indians as citizens upon the roll of civilization with the rest of mankind. The Santees have been well supplied with farming implements and stock. I have quite recently issued 220 head American horses to them, that were purchased for them from funds arising from the sale of land that belonged to them in Minnesota. I have also built fifty houses 14x28 for them, to be paid for from the same fund. There has been a gradual advance, like a child growing to youth and manhood. Those who are with them from day to day scarcely note the change, but 'when we compare the present with ten years ago or less, we find the acreage under cultivation has increased more than five fold. The Indians have learned trades, and now have charge of blacksmith shops, carpenter shop, harness shop, mill, and herd. Indians are manufacturing brick for sale, conducting the business on their own responsibility. Joseph Kitto, for a number of years the Indian blacksmith, is now running the engine at the mill, and I believe will be successful. I also employ Henry Jones as issue clerk. I find him very efficient and correct in his work. John Jones is a blacksmith; Solomon Ross, herder; Francis Frazier, miller; Joseph Redwing, harness maker, and Samuel Wolfe, brick maker. ars. children are all brought into one school now. School has been maintained ten and one-half months, 114 children have attended a portion of the year; average attendance, 76. The children are well cared for and instructed in industry of various kinds. Of the church work Mr. Riggs says that the condition of the native church connected with the Mission is good. That there are 162 Indian members of the church. The Government Industrial Boarding School, under supervision of the agent, is taught by Samuel H. Secombe, who has a general oversight of the school. 58 children have attended school a part of the year (34 males and 24 females.) 47 was the largest number attending during any one month. The boys are taught the various kinds of manual labor. Mr. Secombe reports that, contrary to previous years, the pupils re There are two missions at Santee the "Protestant Episcopal" and the "American Mission Association." The Episcopal mission has three churches in which religious services are held by the Rev. William W. Fowler, an Indian minister. 490 have been baptized. The religious influence is very perceptible throughout the tribe. This mis-mained in the school until the final exercises sion has a male and female school at Santee and a school at Springfield, Dakota, for both sexes. They generally have about 35 scholMuch credit is due this (St. Mary's) school for the efficiency and progress that is made for general good in teaching the English language and instructing the girls in the industrial arts, so that they may become good housekeepers. Hope school, at Springfield, Dakota, is a boarding school three miles from Santee. They have about 25 children, who are brought from the various Agencies to be educated. They are well cared for. The school is a good one and a credit to the Mission and those who have charge of it. The English language is taught entire. were completed; that the school numbered 50 during the last two weeks of school; that an increased interest is apparent in the attendance and labors of the school; that in the manual labor part there is quite a creditable improvement; that there were eight girls who could take the material and, with no help from the seamstress, fit, cut, and make a dress that would be well fitted and tasty; that nearly every girl in school, from eight years and upwards, understands running a sewing machine and doing all ordinary work on it; that the smallest girls in school, with one exception, can neatly and correctly set and clear table, wash and wipe dishes, make beds and darn, stockings, while many of the larger girls can do nearly all kinds of cooking; that the boys are becoming more accustomed to the details of farm work, such as plowing, harrowing planting, and cultivating. The larger boys do the milking and take care of horses, cattle, and hogs. The "American Mission Association" has within the last year bought the mission property that belonged to the "American Board of Foreign Missions," consisting of two churches and a number of dwellings and school buildings. Rev. Alfred L. Riggs has charge. He has been in the mission work The school-room work has been marked for a number of years and reports a general with much progress. The studies for the year advance of the school in every way for the have been reading, penmanship, drawing, the last year, that they have introduced several spelling, arithmetic, geography, language, new branches of study in the higher grades, and object lessons. One of the greatest sucand they have graded and organized the cesses has been in getting the children to school more complete. He states that the talk English. This was accomplished by scholars have learned more of application at making the English language compulsory study and work, and that the attendance has among the children in attendance at the gained in regularity. That the educational school. At first, the Dakota was not allowed sentiment is growing in the community, and talked in the buildings; second, not allowed among the patrons of the school in other to be talked about the buildings, the orders being communities, so that now he has little trouble encouraged.by all the employees. The good efin keeping the scholars in school. This school I think a very desirable one. The children are boarded in four separate buildings; one building for the larger boys, also one for the small boys, also one for the larger girls, and one for the small girls. The fects began to appear, and the English language to predominate. We believe as the children learn to talk English they become more interesting and interested scholars, and unconsciously assume with the English language the civilization and refinement that is associated with it. |