own as a business league, the purpose of which is to
promote and develop business methods and to create larger confidence
on the part of the Negroes themselves in their own ability. As a
whole the convention was very encouraging and hopeful.

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[Sidenote: Texas.]

Several friends have sent contributions to this office to help those
who have suffered from the terrible storm in Galveston and the
interior of Texas. These gifts have been forwarded to a missionary
pastor near Galveston and will be wisely administered.

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LE MOYNE NORMAL INSTITUTE.

PROF. A. J. STEELE, MEMPHIS, TENN.

The school bears the honored name of one who, in the long years of
the anti-slavery agitation, was known as an uncompromising friend of
human freedom. It stands, with its nearly thirty years of successful
work, a most fitting memorial of his life and labors for humanity. A
personal friend and an associate of Dr. Strieby of sacred memory, in
the anti-slavery crusade, Dr. F. Julius Le Moyne, of Washington, Pa.,
seeing the great need of education and practical training for the
freed people of the South and anticipating a bequest made in his
will, advanced to the American Missionary Association some twenty
thousand dollars for the establishment of the school at Memphis.

[Illustration: PRINCIPAL A. J. STEELE.]

The school building and a "Home" for the workers, made necessary by
the needs of the work and the adverse feeling toward teachers of
colored schools, were erected and the school was opened in October,
1871. From that time till now the American Missionary Association has
had charge of this school.

It was the wish of Dr. Le Moyne that the work of the school should be
prosecuted along the most practical lines, to meet the more pressing
demands of an untrained race, and to this end he stipulated that the
so-called "dead languages" should form no part of its course of
study, and that it should be adapted to the relief of the most
pressing wrongs and needs of the colored people in the struggle for
life to which emancipation had brought them. His wishes have been
respected and the school has remained distinctively an English
school, with as great attention to industrial training as time and
means would allow.

The growth of the school, in all that counts to strengthen and
confirm its influence and usefulness, has been steady and
uninterrupted from the b