modern barrel for her, and the
child has saved all the money that has been given her for candy etc.,
putting it in her "miss'n barral" saying it was to help build a chapel.
She began putting her pennies in the barrel when two-and-a-half years
old. At the end of three months she brought it to the ladies as they
were preparing to send their money to the treasurer. On opening, little
Pat's barrel was found to contain one dollar and two cents, which the
ladies have sent to the American Missionary Association for the colored
schools of the South. They hope the gift and story of "little Pat" may
bring courage to the workers and lead others to save their pennies to
help feed Christ's lambs. Little Pat is not weary in well doing, but is
again collecting money for missions. Soon after the barrel was emptied a
book agent called at the house. Pat went up to him as he stood in the
door, clasped her arms about his knees and looking up said: "If you dive
me some money for my miss'n box Desus will like you." The man looked at
her and gave her half a dollar, saying: "The idea of a little thing like
that asking for money for missions," and with a queer look on his face
which Pat's mother described by saying, "he looked as if he was going to
cry," he turned and walked off without describing his book.

Truly, "A little child shall lead them."

THE PROBLEM OF ILLITERACY.

The question of illiteracy among the peoples that come to us from
foreign lands is one of great importance. The large percentage of those
unable to read and write sent to us from Europe startles us. When we
come, however, to compare the percentage of illiteracy in the lands
represented by the larger body of immigrants with the illiteracy in our
own Southern States the insignificance of the former is at once evident.
The great body of illiterates are not those who come from across the
ocean, but those who are born and bred in our own land--native
Americans. That this is most emphatically true the following table
gathered from the last census reports abundantly proves:

Ireland, percentage of illiteracy 23
France, " " " 15
Netherlands, " " " 14
England, " " " 9
Scotland, " " " 6
Switzerland, " " " 5
Germany, " " " 4
Scandinavia, " "