to-day the wind blows just a little but not much.

We always play ball, and have nice times playing. But some times we get
hurt. The Perkins Hall boys always play ball with the Whitney Hall boys,
but the Whitney boys always get beaten.

Everybody on the Reservation has ploughed his field and planted corn,
potatoes, onions, squashes, beets, turnips, wheat, oats, flax, beans and
melons, so everything is just coming out, and after a while they will
grow big and good to eat.

Mr. Lawson went away in May, and the boys had to work up there alone.
They worked all right, and when he came back he found that all papers
were ready to be printed. He came back with some galley-holders and some
cases. After he had been back about two weeks, another machine came; it
is the paper cutter. It is a nice machine for the printing office. Seven
boys work in the morning and six in the afternoon, so we are getting
along first rate.

We always go after tipsina on the hills; some of the people call them
wild turnips. They are very good to eat. If you don't know them, you
lose something in your life. You don't know how they taste unless you
have eaten some. They have dark-blue flowers on them which stand about
four or five inches from the ground. They are easy to find out, and when
we find them, we have to dig them. When we come back, we always get so
tired that we lay down under the trees.

Your friend, JOHN BROWN.

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RECEIPTS FOR JULY, 1889.

DANIEL HAND EDUCATIONAL FUND FOR COLORED PEOPLE.

Income for July, 1889, from investments $832.50

Previously acknowledged 30,469.86

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Total $31,302.36

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MAINE, $463.22.

Bangor. Hammond St. Ch. and Soc. 70.46

Bangor. Sab. Sch. of First Parish Cong.
Ch., _for Atlanta U._ 10.00

Bangor. Sab. Sch. Central Cong. Ch.,
_for Rosebud Indian M._ 1.00

Blanchard. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 7.00

Brownsville. "A." 1.00

Bucksport. Sab. Sch. of Elm St. Cong.
Ch., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 25.00

Machias. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 10.00

Portland. State St. Ch., 150; Mrs.
Mary C. Ingalls, 2.50 152.50

Portland. "Ki