ny, including scores of the children of the believers,
were baptized. A Presbyterian congregation of more than one hundred
communicants was organized. This church was afterwards united with the
church of the Prison-pen, at Crow Creek, Nebraska.

In 1883, he was appointed superintendent of Presbyterian missions among
the Sioux Indians. He has ever abounded in self-sacrificing and
successful labors among this tribe. He has organized Nineteen (19)
congregations and erected twenty-three (23) church edifices. In
twenty-three years he has traveled two hundred thousand miles in the
prosecution of these arduous labors. The number of converts cannot be
reckoned up.

In 1866, he was married to Miss Sarah A. Vannice. To them there have
been born four sons and three daughters, who are still living. In 1869
he established the Yankton mission, which has ever since been a great
center, moral and spiritual, to a vast region. At the same time he
established his home at Greenwood, South Dakota, and from that, as his
mission headquarters, he has gone to and from in his great missionary
tours throughout the Dakota land.

He has, also, abounded in literary labors. For sixteen years he was the
chief editor of "Iapi Oayi," an Indian weekly. In 1864, he published
"Powa Wow-spi," an Indian Spelling Book, and in 1865, a collection of
Dakota Hymns. His greatest literary work, however, was an edition of
the "Dakota Dictionary," in 1871, and other later editions.

He has won the affections of the whole Sioux nation. They bow willingly
to his decisions, and follow gladly his counsels. To them, he is a much
greater man than President Roosevelt. While he has passed the limit of
his three-score years and ten--forty-six of them in frontier
service--his bow still abides in strength, and he still abounds in
manifold labors. He is still bringing forth rich fruitage in his old
age.

Every white dweller among the Indians is known by some special
cognomen. His is simply "John." And when it is pronounced, by a Sioux
Indian as a member of the tribe always does it so lovingly, all who
hear it know he refers to "John, the Beloved of the Sioux Nation."

X

THE MARTYRS OF OLD ST. JOE.

One of the most touching tragedies recorded in the annals of the new
Northwest, was enacted in the sixth decade of the nineteenth century,
on the borders of Prince Rupert's Land and the Louisiana purchase (now
Manitoba and North Dakota). It is a picturesque spot, wh