came on the S.F. & W.
train, and they had been ordered to wait for passengers on that
train; so, doubtless considering discretion the better part of
valor, they left us severely alone, and we rode from Savannah to
Macon, an eight-hour journey in _Georgia_, first class, without
molestation. Of course, the white people who entered at various
stations stared at us, but we were good at that and returned the
compliment. First class, indeed! Men with turpentine clothes, or
rags, on; women chewing snuff, etc., etc. If I looked, acted and
talked like some of the people that I saw on that train, I should
certainly feel myself an appropriate subject for an ox-cart in the
backwoods, rather than for a first class coach on a railroad; yet
these are the people who object to respectable, well-dressed,
intelligent and Christian men and women riding in a decent coach,
on account of their color."

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THE SOUTH.

NOTES IN THE SADDLE

BY FIELD-SUPERINTENDENT C.J. RYDER.

Pleasant Hill, Tenn., has now a school building worthy the growing
importance of that interesting field on the Cumberland plateau. The
teaching force has been enlarged and the influence of the school is
constantly widening. Another building to be used for boarding pupils is
in process of erection, and is greatly needed. Maine has joined hands
with Tennessee in this most important work, several of the churches
having given to this field.

A new church has just been organized at Crossville, Tenn. Many northern
families have come into this region within the past few months, and they
will greatly assist us in gathering the native mountain people.

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Grand View Academy, occupying a most commanding site on the top of a
mountain overlooking the magnificent valley of the Cumberland River, has
also increased its school accommodations. There will be here, in the not
very distant future, a large college, reaching in its influence the
mountain people back on the plateau and in the coves, and those who are
rapidly filling the fertile valley along the foot of Cumberland Mountain
and Walden's Ridge. If we, as Congregational Churches, hold this grand
work, we must generously support it _now_.

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A specimen, a hybrid of civilization and paganism, I saw on the streets
of Fort Smith, Arkans