turns to the eastward; a low ridge of sand however extends from eight to ten miles farther north. On the end of this sand spit is a small village called Nuwuk. On the sand spit is a hunting station where the natives congregate for some weeks to kill ducks as they pass to and fro over the spit from water to water. Thousands upon thousands of ducks are killed here every season. But few families were at Nuwuk at the time of our visit, and they were living in tents outside of their winter huts. The first white man to visit this place was Master Elson, of H. M. S. "Blossom " (Captain Beechney's expedition), in August, 1826. One hundred and forty-six miles to the east is Return Reef, the westernmost point reached by Sir John Franklin in his journey to form a junction with Captain Beechney's expedition. Soon after my return to the "Bear" from the village, a shipwrecked crew were received on board the Government vessel to be taken back to civilization. As the Captain had on board the materials for a Government storehouse at the Point Barrow Refuge Station, he concluded to return at once to that place and discharge his freight, that more comfortable quarters might be made for the shipwrecked sailors. At The weather was beautiful, the ocean smooth, and the sail exhilerating. At midnight the sun was visible in the southwest and the full moon in the southeast. I A. M., August 3d, the ship again anchored at Ootkeavie, where we remained a week while the Captain inspected the Refuge Station, and the ship's carpenters were building the Government storehouse. In 1882, Lieutenant Ray's party dug a well to the depth of 37% feet for observing the temperature of the earth. The entire distance was made through frozen sand and gravel. At the bottom of the shaft the temperature remained winter, and summer, uniformly at 12° F. At the depth of 20 feet a tunnel was run 10 feet, and then a room excavated for a cellar. In this room the temperature never rose above 22° F. Birds and meat placed in this room froze solid and remained so until, taken to the kitchen and thawed out for cooking. On Saturday, August 9th, the inspection of the Refuge Station being completed, the storehouse finished and arrangements for the school perfected, preparations were made to return southward. To the east lay the low sand spit that marks the northern limit of the continent, the native village of underground huts and skin-covered tents of the visiting natives from the interior. To the west of us was the midnight sun, and south of us, as if symbolical of the land of light and privilege and comfort to which we were to return, there was not a cloud to be seen in the beautiful, purple sky. At 10 o'clock P. M. we passed the Refuge Station and school, and soon they faded from sight and were left far behind us in their Arctic solitude, until the "Bear" again visits them a twelvemonth hence.-Extracts from an article by Sheldon Jackson, D.D. (U. S. General Agent of Education in Alaska), in the Presbyterian Home Mission Monthly. WOMEN'S SOCIETIES. WOMAN'S AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME 14 TREMONT TEMPLE, BOSTON, MASS. The annual report of Hartshorn Memorial College is full of interest, and denotes earnest work during the past year. Two of the teachers are supported by our Society, viz., Miss Ella J. Fennell and Miss M. L. Voorhees. Miss Mary A. Tefft, the daughter of the President of the College, gives her services under the auspices of our Woman's Society. Miss Tefft, in her report, says: "The school year 1890-91 is the eighth in the his. tory of Hartshorn Memorial College. There have been 103 pupils, of whom sixty-one have been boarders. Of the day pupils, fourteen have boarded in Richmond, where they could partly pay for their board by work. "There have been six regularly appointed teachers, including the matron and the industrial teacher. Besides these, an assistant is employed by the President. He and his assistant together teach ten classes a day. Mrs. J. E. Jones comes daily from the city to give instruction in instrumental music, for which she herself collects the tuition. She gives instruction in vocal music to the whole school. For the means with which to pay her for the latter service we are indebted to the young ladies of Cranston St. Church, in Providence, R. I. Of the pupils, four are in the higher English course, nearly twenty will graduate this year from the normal course. This is the largest class yet graduated. Students are admitted when they can read in the Fifth Reader and work in long division. The extent of the course demands many classes in proportion to the number of pupils. All students are trained in cooking and sewing. All have had instruction in the theory of housekeeping, embracing such things as the care of sleeping rooms, the care of carpets and furs, and washing and ironing; also instruction in nursing, including such points as the necessary qualifications, the care of a sick room, the preparation of food for the sick and antidotes for poisons. "All are instructed in the principles of hygiene. The boarding pupils have had calisthenic exercises twice a week. This is much hampered by the lack of room for exercise. The training in exactness and self-control given by this exercise we feel to be very necessary. "Each member of the school is in a Bible class every school day. Sabbath morning each one is expected to go out to church, and in the evening to attend the preaching service conducted by the President. Two prayer-meetings are held each week. Four societies exist among the students. The Literary Society has for its chief work the oversight of public entertainments given by the students. The Temperance Society has seventy-five members among the present pupils. The Missionary Society is chiefly interested in mission work in Africa. This society has raised, up to April this year, $36. The Hartshorn Home Workers take charge of work done in the neighborhood of the institution. "The outside work of the girls is of several kinds. Two Sabbath-schools in our immediate neighborhood are carried on almost entirely by them. They teach in two other Sabbath-schools and at the colored almshouse. Sunday afternoon some of them visit from house to house to do Christian work. Ten or more teach in the sewing-school, which is held in our buildng once a week. There were 124 present at our meeting. "All but six of the boarders are professed Christians, and we hope before the end of the year all will be within the fold of the Good Shepherd." This account of the school gives some idea of the faithful work performed at Hartshorn Memorial College. We note with peculiar pleasure the increased gifts of our Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society during the year just closed. The amount raised, including the balance of last year, is $43,535.95. Meetings of great interest have been held in all parts of New England. The Society directly aids the parent Home Mission Society in the work of Christian education. Fortyseven teachers are supported wholly or in in part by the money raised by the Woman's Society. These teachers are scattered throughout the South and West. We ask our auxiliaries to make the condition of the women and children in the destitute portions President-MRS. W. H. BREARLY, 230 Charlotte Avenue, Detroit. Vice-Presidents-MRS. E. J. DAVIS, Detroit; MRS. EDWARD OLNEY, Ann Arbor; MRS. J. FLETCHER, Plainwell; MRS. A. F. MCEWAN, Bay City; MRS. K. BROOKS, Alma. Corresponding Secretary-MRS. A. J. Fox, 63 Alfred Street, Detroit. Recording Secretary-MRS. T. T. Lɛɛte, Jr., 64 Alexandrine Avenue, Detroit. Treasurer-MRS. W. A. MOORE, 1055 Woodward Avenue, Detroit. On account of sickness, our report has been delayed a month. We are glad to have so good a one to give now of nearly all our home fields in which the women of Michigan are helping. This last quarter has been one of especial effort by many of our missionary pastors, and most of them report conversions as a result. Rev. M. S. Hayne, of Charlevoix, reports thirty two additions this quarter, and meetings still being held and interest good; so we may hope for more souls yet. He and his people have worked with enthusiasm the past few weeks, holding meetings both at the home church and at an outstation, where he usually preaches every other Sunday. He says of those received so far: "They are, without a single exception, active in the meetings, and many of them very able." All his people have supported him in every effort he has made. He reports 113 sermons preached and 330 religious visits made. Rev. B. Foskett, of Sault Ste. Marie, reports two additions, and in a more recent letter he speaks of extra meetings being held and of eight already being converted, and the interest growing every evening. He is being greatly aided in his work by a young man whom he baptized in Minneapolis several years ago, who is now a Baptist 'minister and especially suited to evangelistic work. The Baptist work in Sault Ste. Marie is quite well established. They have a good church building, a nice parsonage about finished, and a growing membership. This is a very important point, and we hope for great good to our Upper Peninsula work from the efforts of this church. They have had some heavy losses the past year by death and removal of several of their members. But when we are weak, then are we strong." We look to man less for help and more to God, and so our fitness for His service is all the greater. Rev. M. Smith, of St. Ignace, reports three baptisms and writes hopefully of more. Rev. S. S. Clark, of Big Rapids, reports forty-five baptisms. He also writes that his church instructed him to give our Society their hearty thanks for past assistance. Hereafter they hope to be self-supporting; they are going to try it, any way. We hope they may succeed. We rejoice with them in their growing strength. Rev. A. G. Pierce, of Kalkaska, reports four additions to his membership; 144 visits made, 24 tracts distributed, and nine subscriptions for our religious paper taken. Mr. Pierce reported quite a large number of conversions last quarter, and his report shows he is following them up with personal care and conversation, and is securing for them what is often so much needed-religious reading and instruction. There would be a far smaller number dropped and excluded from our church rolls if our ministers were as faithful in their visiting as in their preaching. From Rev. A. E. Cook, our General Missionary of the Upper Peninsula, we hear of two baptisms and the prospect of a new church at Crystal Falls. Our work in this promising part of our State has to go very slow for lack of men. Our General Missionary's time is taken up with pastoral work for churches already organized, but pastorless. What good to organize churches and see them die for want of care. Oh, the sorrow of it! To see those large fields ready for the harvest, and no reapers willing to go! Our young men saying, "Not this field, but some pleasanter one," and these souls left to perish. TREASURER'S REPORT FOR JANUARY, FEBRUARY AND MARCH. Detroit First, $43.90; Stockbridge, $10; Detroit Twelfth, $18; Hudson, $8.50; Porter, $7.19; Hudson, Band, $5; Battle Creek, $10; Mrs. J. P. Mansfield, $5; Ganges, $5; Bellone, $5; Bay City, $26; Detroit, Warren Avenue, $7.50; Oakfield First. $2 60; Rollin, $10; Richmond, $a; T. B., $2; Marquette, $4; Praiseville, $1; Rome Second, $3.63; Detroit, First German, $5; Adrian, $20; Sand Beach, T. B., $5; Pentwater, $8.65; Detroit, North, $3.50; Litchfield, $5; Traverse City, $6.75: Cassopolis, $3; Muskegon, $14.15; South Bay City, Band, $5; Kalkaska, $2; Oscoda, $3; Paw Paw, $1.50; Bloomingdale, $5: Fenton, $3: Jackson, $19.07; Band, $15; Paris, $6; Niles, $12.56; Mount Clemens, $6.46; Highland, Pearl Gatherers, $14; Spring Lake, $3.25 ; Centreville, $3.45; Ceresco, $4.19; Iron Mountain, $3.15; Grand Rapids Second, $5.25; Morenci, $6; Kinderhook, $10; Milford, $5; Emerson, $2.10; Alpena, $10.38; Plymouth, $3; Pewamo, $3; Port Huron, $12 65; Milan, $3.45; Kalamazoo, $20.26; Marshall, T. B., $2.92; Greenville, $3.62; Detroit Eighteenth, $7; Bay City, Fremont Avenue, Young Ladies, $5; Highland, Circle, $8.54 Three Sunday-schools, $4.05; Detroit, Woodward Avenue S. S., $29 23; Plainwell, $7.10; Augusta, $1; Hillsdale, $5; Ionia S. S., $5.05; Howard City S. S., $1.10; Petoskey, $12.55; Sand Beach, $4; Pentwater S. S., $6.43: Mooreville, $3.50; Novi, Cheerful Workers, $2; Belding S. S., $5; Detroit, Woodward Avenue, $57.48; Mrs. William A. Moore, $5; Mrs. L. B. Austin, $7; Mrs. S. B. Coleman, $2; Mrs. O. S. Gulley, $15: Otsego, $2.50; Bath, $5; Saranac, $1.50; Dowagiac, $5: Ovid, $4; Quincy, $2.75; Owosso, Band, $6: Mount Morris, 5cc.; Saginaw, Michigan Avenue, $6.27; Cedar Springs, $2.25; Howell, $7.50; Ithaca, $10.13: Okemos, $1.30; Tecumseh, $7 30; South Haven, $6.70; Midland, $5.50; Climax, $7; Crand Rapids, Fountain Street, $14.91: Eaton Rapids, $2.35; Port Huron, Pearl Gatherers, $5; Weston, T. B., $12; Palo, $5.35; DeWitt, $3.20; Gregory, $3.17; Three Oaks, $2.35; Bloomfield, $6.64; St. John's, $2; Holly, $3.50; Portland, $11; South Saginaw, $7: St. Ignace, $5: Mourt Pleasant, $2.50; Detroit, First S. S., $13; Marquette, $5; Ashland, $3.68; Ann Arbor, $15; Lansing, $13.25; T. B., $1.60; Coldwater, $7.50; Saginaw, West Side, $5; Ypsilanti, $10. Total, $894.13. Rev. Gerhard Kuhlen, South Side German Mission, Chicago, Ill. Rev. John Fechter, Germans in Salem, Oregon. of " William Ritzmann, Germans in Bridgeport, Conn. Henry W. Geil, First German Church, Syracuse, N. Y. John Schiek, Immigrants arriving in New York, N. Y. John Schuff, Germans in Tonawanda, N. Y. Fr. Knorr, Sixty-third St. German Mission, New York City, and German Mission, Hoboken, N. J. Hieronymus Groeminger, Germans in Town of Union, N. J. Albert Brandt, Second German Church, Newark, N. J. Dettmer Köster, Germans in Erie, Pa. John Charles Schmitt, Third German Church, Philadelphia, Pa. William Schuff, Germans in Jeannette and vicinity, Pa. "Ludwig Lanyi, Germans in Newport, Ky. " " Joseph Scholz, Hastings Street German Mission, Chicago, Ill. Ludwig Hein, German-Polish Church, Pouad, Wis. Jacob Albert, First German Church, Minneapolis, Minn. August Marquart, Germans in Winona, Minn. John James Valkenaar, Germans in Clinton, Iowa. J. E. Sydow, Germans in King and Coryell City, Texas. John F. Matzick, Germans in Hillsboro, Kans. George Burgdorff, Germans in Hastings, Neb. Rudolph Klitzing, Germans in Fremont, Neb. E. H. Teall, Jamestown, North Dak. Mr. John Williams, Choctaw Indians, Ind. Ter. John Ridge, Cherokee Indians, Ind Ter. 66 Friedrich Reichle, Germans in Portland, Oregon. A. W. Runyon, Hamilton Church, San Francisco, Cal. Andrew Judson Sturtevant, Napa, Cal. P. W. Dorsey, Emmanuel Church, San Francisco, Cal. John D. Green, Chico, Cal. John C. Jordan, Bakersfield, Cal. Joseph H. Beavan, Walla Walla, Wash. Samuel W. Beaven, Centralia, Wash. John Stumpf, Germans in Arnprior, Ontario. F. A. Petereit, Germans in Winnipeg and vicinity, Manitoba. Manuel Trevino Flores Salinas and Santa Rosa, Mexico. 1 Charles Carroll, G. H. Davis, Joseph Scholz, Colored People in Tennessee, Germans in Berlin and Danzig, No. Dak, Aberdeen, So. Dak., Lisbon and vicinity, Ellinwood, Kans., 5 12 20 7 22 9 11 6 Grand Ave. Church, St. Louis, Mo.. 9 Zeferim Guajardo, Ebanos and vicinity, Mexico, 6 5 DATE West Wardsboro, Vt., Philadelphia, Pa., May 13 May 10 May 8 May 28 May 28 Williamsport, Pa., Wyalusing, Pa., North Wales, Pa., West Chester, Pa., Lowville, N. Y., Wilmington, De, May 19 May 5 May 14 |