Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-15
HOW ID EXTEND THE WORK Is the Problem of the Woman'S
 Board of Missions. THE SIDE LIGHTS ON BRAZIL
Are Interesting in the Extreme Presi-
 dent Is Friendly.
HOW THE FUNDS ARE APPoRTloNED
Seven Candidates sAccepted-Japan to Be En- tered at the Earliest Possible Moment. Showing of the Scaritt-Miss
 Barnes Salary Is Raised

Meridian, Miss, May 14.-(Special)-
 The third business session of the womans board of foreign missions was | held this morning. The minutes of the preceding session were read and cor rected.
 The treasurer read report, showing about $50 falling off in the memorial
 fund for this year as compared with the preceding. The point that the money
 raised by juvenile societies should be reported as a separate item was raised. 1 This is an encouragement to the young l people. Several communications were | read in regard to the work in Mexico. The committee on extension of work read report No. g. The estimates for | Mexico are $35. of which $1O,7SO is | for missionaries salaries. Some one asked that $2700 be added for school
 work, but Mrs. Trueheart urged that l Brazil had the most urgent demands | upon the treasurer.
 Report No. was read which contained | a letter from MT. Tucker in Brazil, show | ing how carefully the Brazilian law had | been complied with in the purchase of the property at Metropolis and explaining | what a fine possession it is, the prospect | being that after the school there IS ialfly started it will be self-supporting and | | of Brazil. Metropolis is elevated and the | climate is fine
 | Some resolutions were passed thanking l Mir Tucker for his services in eXchang- | ing the Brazilian property and Mfs. | Tucker for her help in the Rio school, | The estimate for the ensuing year on | Brazil including the districts of Piraca- cabo, Juiz de Fora, Rio Jeneiro and Pc | tropolis, is $17, ,905. The estimates incud- | ed the sending out of three new mission aries. . | The reports on Mexico and Brazil l having been adopted, Mrs. Bruce was | called upon and explained many de- l tails of the work and the life or the 1 workers in Brazil and at Juiz de Fora | especially. Among other things she | stated that to pay for her laundry In | Brazil required more money that some | of the home conference secretaries nan | died in year; that they ga1ned ad- 1 mission to the people sometimes through | washerwomen and servants; that by the | revolution prices had been greatly in | creased, and in many cases tripled. The | present president of Brazil is friendly | to the mission work, especially to Miss | Watts of our board, but he is sur | rounded by corrupt politicians ana the | result cannot be foreseen. | Metropolis was the summer home or | the emperor, and his palace is used at 1 present for a Roman Catholic school 1 Sometimes it is very difficult for pro- l | under the name of a school. 1 The report of the committee on mis- | sionary candidates was made by Mrs | c. w. Brandon.
 | The names of the seven candidates &C., | cepted and appointed to work are as l follows:
 To Brazil--Misses Willie Bowman of | the St Louis conference. Eliza Perkin- | son of the Missouri conference, M. M l Umberger of the Holston conference. Hot fn nf | the South Georgia conference, Ida May | Wirt of the St. Louis conference, Viola | Blackburn of the North Mississippi l conference
 To China-Miss Lizzie K. Martin of | the North Carolina conference. The application of Dr. Annie Walter to | be regularly appointed as a medical l missionary in China was accepted. | Miss Walter is of Holly Springs, Miss. and has already been at work in the l hospital at Soochow, China
 The report recommended also the se- | curing of an associate. for Dr. Walter | in place of Mrs. Campbell, who returns | for her health.
 Miss M. L. Gibson, principal, read the l report on the Scarrtt Bible and Training | school at Kansas City. Here are some extracts from it:
 My report of last May included the | work of our last school session. The year | ended May 29 at which time five stu dents received diplomas. The four | nurses who graduated at that time have | since completed their term of service in | the hospital and have entered on their | life service
 "The students enrolled during the year were eighteen in the Biblical department | nine in the nurse training department, | six who take practical course, besides | 175 who are enrolled in the industrial de- | partment. Eleven are preparing for the | foreign mission fields, two for deaconess- l es in the Methodist Episcopal church, two 1 for home missionaries six for trained | nurses and others for Bible study. "We have six nurses in training. Four | have completed their course of two years | and are now doing private nursing in Kansas City and adjoining towns. One of these has been appointed by the 1 Northern Presbyterian board to the | Miraj hospital in India. We are glad to report that our graduate nurses are do- | ing we'll, and we have much praise of | them from the physicians and homes en- | tered
 l Miss Billingsley has taught book