s taken and the work
done by those who were regular and who remained at school long enough to
be really fit for good service, with those who thought they could come
in January and leave in April, getting an imperfect knowledge of things,
to their credit be it told, they _learn_--some _cannot_ learn life's
lessons--and there has been lately a gratifying eagerness to be present
at every recitation during the whole year. I do not think one has left
this year who could possibly remain. When the floods came and many of
them learned that their homes were under water, in some cases the
savings of many years in buildings and stock washed away, they came to
us saying they must go as they could no longer pay, but we told them to
wait. White-winged missives flew over Uncle Sam's postal way, and back
from many a church and Sunday-school came the needed aid, and--save in
the case of some young men who had to care for helpless ones at
home--none left. From these last came many an interesting story of the
heroic efforts to save life and property. The skill to wield tools,
acquired in our shop, helped many a one to build a "flat" in which
family, stock and furniture could be floated to dry land. Many had to
work night and day up to the waist, sometimes to the neck, in water to
save what might be. It will be a hard year, the coming one, for many in
the parishes of this State, though no doubt work will be plenty as soon
as the water is down.

Temperance In Tennessee.
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This is certainly a very interesting field, not going backward but
forward. The temperance reform has made a clean sweep of the whole
village, and in union with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union at the
station is fast pushing the saloons to the wall. The most striking feature
of the case is that they have learned how to work in the absence of their
leader. Two weeks ago last Sabbath night they held their own meeting--a
Bible reading institution among themselves, by the way, at which many were
present--and the old revival spirit broke out afresh to such a degree that
the last of their friends, to the number of eighteen, who still clung to
their cups, made haste to sign the pledge of total abstinence.

Items.
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Letter From A Graduate Of Straight University.

There was an examination held in this city recently for clerkships at
Washington. The announcement of it in the newspapers and the certainty of
th