Year: 1874

stool" "a name that has become a


household word at home, and around


which cluster many poetic and SEN


timental ideas, but if you all could


see the ''topsy-turvy" state it is in,
and the hard. work we have to do to


geti into any kind of running order,
you would not think there is much
poetry about it.


Miss Bacon has been here alone
the past six weeks, and now she and
I, with little girl sent by Mrs.


Janvier to school, cher adopted
daughter) are the only occupants OF
this renowned building.


1t is cold and bleak-snow not
melted on the north side of the


mountain. We sit by large
wood fires when we have time
to sit. You have no idea OF
how long it takes to get everything
done, and how many it takes to do
it, in this country. I have had two
men most of the time washing doors
and windows up stairs, and they have
not finished two rooms. Aunt Polly
Berry could have done all they have
done in three hours.


We have determined to make this
a comfortable, pleasant home for the
children who may be sent to us.
We expect to open with 20 pupils.
After we get all the old furniture
mended, ali the old China (which is
of great variety of patterns) sorted,
and the walls whitened and ready,
we will not have much time to rest
before school opens.


Sarah Morrison was to come here,
but she was not able to come, so l
am here. I am not sure 1 will enjoy
teaching the children of Missionaries
as well as I do the natives, but hope
we will have many of the English
population, whom we can train as
workers in the mission fields, and as
they have the language already, they
will make more efficient workers than
we. I hope our friends at home will
take scholarships in this school, and
enable us to educate those who are
not able to pay for themselves. 1
know of several I would be glad to
have here, but I have not the money.
Zone hundred dollars a year.)


1 have been SO much disappointed
at not seeing cousin Jim Trimble. I
received another letter from him,
dated Jan. 20, in Calcutta, in which
he said his business engagements
were such he must soon go to Al
exandria, then to Naples and Rome,
and could not come to see me. He
hopes to reach home in a year. I
did want to see him so much.


I am astonished to hear of the
movement among the ladies of Hills
boro. I cannot realize the fact, and
yet I hope they may do all the good
they have in view. How I would en-
joy being at one of your morning
meetings! Tell all those ladies 1
wish them God speed! You have no
idea what a worldwide reputation
our dear old Hillsboro has gained of
late, and how much interest is taken
in your movements on this side of the
world. Some look upon it as a wild,
movement, and cannot un-
derstand how you can hold meetings
on the street, and think it is out of
place, to say the least of it. Others
say, ''those American women can do



1t seems very strange to me to
think of so many of my dear rela-
tions and friends being so much
stirred up, and all being brought in
to Court, and your names
known all over the world; yet I am
proud to own you all as my kindred,
according to the flesh as well as in
The spirit.


Some people here say they can STE
no use mixing up Religion with Tenn
perance. You would be amused to
near some Of the opinions the people
here have of America. 1 was taking
TEA with friend one evening, and |
5he Ladies' Temperance Movement
vas one of the topics of discussion.
had occasion to remark that there
vas no country where women had
80 much attention, and gallantry
shown them, and so much defer