the train, and
on the train, and when she goes to the house from the train, and bless
her all the time."

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Mrs. W----, an old lady, said: "My old man ax me every night when he
come from work if there be a meeting up yonder. He do like to go to
meeting. He think a heap of that young preacher up yonder. Last
Wednesday night after meeting, he say to me, 'Mary, I'll be good to you
after this,' and I say the same to him. It do me a heap of good to go up
yonder. I learn more than I ever knowed before. I knows what the texts
means now."

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SATISFACTORILY EXPLAINED.--A few days since, during a recitation in
geography, a teacher was endeavoring to explain the subject of
electricity in the lesson on "Thunder and lightning." It had been stated
that when a flash of lightning darts to the earth it is said to
_strike_. A precocious lad of twelve summers (winters included), raised
his hand and upon recognition said: "Do _people_ have any electricity?"
Upon being informed that every one possessed the subtle force in a
greater or less degree, his dusky, good-natured face lighted up, and he
added, "Then is that the reason why some people always want to strike?"

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BOOK NOTICE

_Pleas for Progress._ By ATTICUS G. HAYGOOD, D.D. Publishing House of
M.E. Church South, Nashville, Tenn. Price, $1.00.

Dr. Haygood is a Southern man who stands with his face toward sunrise
and not sunset. As a writer, he is interesting and vigorous. He
sometimes forgets to take off his "Titbottom spectacles" when he looks
southward, but he puts in tremendous blows against the wrong which he
sees. This volume before us contains papers and addresses delivered at
various times and places, both North and South. It is a very valuable
book for those who desire to learn what the really Christian people of
the South think on these great National problems that the American
Missionary Association is helping to solve.

The lecture on "The Education of the Negro," delivered at Monteagle,
Tenn., and published in this volume, is a sample. Dr. Haygood states
"four root objections" to negro education: 1--Ignorance; 2--Stinginess;
3--Prejudice; 4--Fear that education will "spoil the negro as a laborer"
and bring him into "social equality" with the whites. The author shows
the absurdity of all these objections.

The volume is full of statistics and