, and there
can be no question about the advisability of pushing the industrial
work as far as possible the coming year. In the boys' department, too,
all were surprised to see the articles in display. There were joints
of every shape, all of them showing skill of high order; there were
many useful articles displayed, such as pen-racks, pen-trays,
towel-rolls, hat-racks, puzzles, etc. Many of the articles were given
away by the boys to the friends, and some of the articles will be
exhibited in the North to show the class of work done in our schools.
As it seems to me, no branch of work is more important than the
industrial, and great interest is taken in it by the boys. The lack of
money has made it necessary to curtail this very important part of our
educational work.

The work done in the last year leads me to believe that there should
be no cutting down in any part of the work of Ballard school, which I
regard as one of the most promising of the many American Missionary
Association schools, and especially should there be no cutting in
either of the industrial departments. More than any one thing, these
people need to be taught the use of time and the saving of money;
this, with the intellectual and moral training in our schools, will
make full grown men and women. The work-begun is one that should be
pursued with no let up.

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BEACH INSTITUTE, SAVANNAH, GA.

MISS JULIA B. FORD.

The closing week began with the class reunion, Friday evening, May
18th, when, notwithstanding a wild wind and rain storm, a blithe
company assembled in the cosy rooms at the Teachers' Home.

Sunday afternoon, May 20th, an able baccalaureate address was preached
by the Rev. Alexander Ellis, of Savannah. The large audience, which
filled our flower-decked chapel, were said, by a resident, to be "the
best colored people of Savannah." Certainly the sight of this large
company of refined and intelligent persons of the Negro race might
have served as an inspiration to a worker for that race.

On Tuesday morning, after the usual opening exercises, the Rev. Mr.
Upshaw gave an instructive and stirring talk on the evils of the use
of narcotics. A good letter from the Junior Christian Endeavor band of
Ionia, Iowa, was read to the students, who returned a hearty vote of
thanks for the draft for five dollars therein contained for a clock
for our chapel, also for the promise of a scholarship for a student
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