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EAVING Valdez on June 1st,

with Dr. Cocherille, one of my vestrymen, on his thirty foot launch, we ran down to Ellamar, having the finest of seas and weather. There at night in the school-house we had service with forty present. Wednesday morning, after I had baptized a young child, we pulled out for Landlock Bay and spent the next two days visiting new mining camps. These were my first visits in these camps. I held no services. It was rather a "prospecting tour," as I was getting acquainted, looking over the ground, and studying conditions with reference to opportunities for usefulness.

On the return trip to Valdez we reached Ellamar just as a young boy who was fooling in the shop had his arm caught in a belt of the machinery and broken. We took him aboard, with his father and a younger brother who has a

tubercular knee, necessitating the amputation of his leg above it, and went on our way to Valdez, which we reached at 8:30 P.M. After seeing the boys safely bestowed in the Good Samaritan Hospital, the doctors called, and the arm set, I took the Santa Clara, which was fortunately sailing at midnight for Cordova, reaching there at nine Sunday morning in good time for my appointments. We had two good services and Sunday-school. Things are running well there under Mr. Ziegler's care.

The reading table at The Red Dragon is not so well stocked with magazines and papers as I wish it were. At Valdez I am much better supplied, and the opposite should be the case, as The Red Dragon has ten to one as many visitors as the Valdez rectory. We want current magazines in large quantities, as we try to supply the Copper River railway

camps, where 1,500 men are now employed. There will soon be twice as many. We can also use more books at The Red Dragon, not merely novels but solid reading: we have college men and most intelligent mechanics among our guests. Books dealing with social conditions, history and science and philosophy and religion will be most welcome. Everything should be addressed "The Red Dragon, Cordova, Alaska," and should carry the sender's name and address upon the wrapper. I should like also some paper-bound books, substantial as well as light reading, to send to winter camps. One such spot boasted last year one copy of the Saturday Evening Post for a long winter's reading. The men could read it backwards, including advertisements, so familiar had it be

come.

With Mr. Ziegler I came out on the railway line. Much construction work is going on. We had the pleasure of meeting many of our good friends who frequent The Red Dragon during idle months and also meeting new men just out from New York, men who have been engaged on some of the sub-river work, who were bidden by their eastern rectors to look

me up, who had been at services in The Red Dragon as they passed through Cordova. The camp we visited, "No. 49 Copper River" is its name, will be permanent for two years or more, as the bridge will take so long to build. We want to locate The Red Dragon's first daughter here. It will be a tent club house, floored and boarded up, which will serve as a reading and game room, and a place for writing letters, where we also can hold services occasionally as we are able to come out.

As we were calling at the bunk houses I saw men sitting reading on the sides of their bunks, a couple playing chess, at the one table by a window, with a group of onlookers. Do your readers know a bunk house? It has an alley from the door to the opposite wall and window, from which the two alleys run in both directions to the end walls and the four windows. It has a double, or possibly triple, tier of bunks on each side wall, and two such down the middle, accommodating a goodly company. Fancy the luxury of a loafing room after supper before bed when men are of necessity so crowded!

MR. THOMAS AND
MONTANA

Bishop Brewer, in his address to the Montana diocesan convention, after speaking of the exalted character and devoted work of the late George C. Thomas, told this characteristic incident of Mr. Thomas's sense of stewardship:

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FEW weeks after the close of the last General Convention, he wrote me that he had designated $5,000 of his gift to the Men's Thank-Offering for me to use as I thought best. But he said he did not know when I would get it. I replied that I should use it for the building of churches and rectories. Because of that promise, I made pledges that covered nearly the whole of the sum promised. I watched carefully the reports of the meetings of the Board of Missions. But when the thank-offering was discussed there was no mention of any part of it as designated for Montana. In the proceedings of the meeting last March I saw that the fund was about all gone, but still Montana was not named.

I then wrote to the Assistant Treasurer, stating the fact and telling him that because of that promise I had made certain pledges, and from January, 1908, had been paying interest on some of them. I said I should be glad to know if I was not to have what had been promised, because in that case I must withdraw my pledges. I told him also that I did not like to write to Mr. Thomas, as he was always giving and always being asked to give. He sent a copy of my letter to Mr. Thomas. At once Mr. Thomas wrote me saying a mistake had been made in settling with the Board, and inclosing his check for $5,300-the sum that he had promised, with one year's interest added. He asked me not to report it to the Board or to acknowledge it to anyone except himself in a letter marked personal and to credit it on my books as coming from "a friend of missions." Then I wrote him in response that it seemed an unjust thing that he should pay this sum twice over. He wrote again with his own hand, saying that he thanked God that he had learned of the mistake, for it relieved me of embarrassment and enabled

Department 3. The Rev. Thomas J. Garland, Secretary, Church House, Philadelphia.

Departments 4 and 7. The Rev. R. W. Patton, care of the Rev. C. B. Wilmer, D.D., 412 Courtland Street, Atlanta, Ga.

Department 5. The Rev. John Henry Hopkins, D.D., 348 Ashland Boulevard, Chicago, Ill.

Department 6. The Rev. C. C. Rollit, D.D., Secretary, 4416 South Upton Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.

Department 8. The Rev. L. C. Sanford, 1215 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, Cal.

MISSIONARY OFFERINGS

IN CHINA

From the Christians at Wusih, China, there comes to the Church Missions House an offering for missions of $26.54. The Rev. G. F. Mosher gives this account of it:

HIS draft is the amount we have

realized from the use of mite-boxes in Advent, the offering being made on Christmas Day. We gave out 131 boxes, and 123 of them were returned. They contained 19 silver dollars, 80 ten-cent pieces, 1 five-cent piece, 1,564 ten-cash pieces (about one cent each), and 99 cash. To these were added the offerings at the celebrations of the Holy Communion, during the week of prayer in Advent, $19.10, and $3.00 made as a special offering by one of our women who had recovered from serious illness and wished to show her thanks in this way. The total was Mexican $60.47which at the prevailing rate bought the draft of $26.54 gold.

We have now adopted here as a regular rule the custom of using mite-boxes both Advent and Lent. At Christmas we give the offering to foreign missions; at Easter we give the offering to domestic missions, that is, to such thing as Bishop Graves may specify. This Easter the bishop specified our own dispensary here in Wusih, and we gave them as follows: 114 boxes were returned out of 122 distributed, containing 42 silver dollars, 113 ten-cent pieces, 1,510 ten-cash pieces, 167 cash, a total of Mexican $65.01. It is interesting, I think, to keep track of the way in which the money comes in; our people are poor and many of them have done a great deal when they have put in 100 or 200 cash.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Concerning the Missionaries

Alaska

DEACONESS BERTHA W. SABINE, returning after leave of absence because of illness, left Germantown, Pa., on July 11th and sailed from Seattle by the steamer Jefferson July 20th, en route to Circle City, where she is to be stationed.

The Philippines

THE REV. REMSEN B. OGILBY, going to The Philippines under special arrangement with Bishop Brent to become headmaster of the school for American boys at Baguio, sailed from San Francisco by the Chiyo Maru on June 29th.

Porto Rico

THE Bishop of Porto Rico coming to this country sailed from San Juan July 21st and reached New York July 26th.

Shanghai

THE REV. JOSEPH L. MEADE, II., whose appointment was announced in the June number, going to Shanghai via Europe, sailed from Montreal on the Hesperian June 26th.

MR. JAMES THAYER ADDISON and Mr. Horace Gray, Harvard, '09, going to St. John's University, Shanghai, for a year under special arrangement, sailed from San Francisco on the Chiyo Maru, June 29th.

Tokyo

DEACONESS A. L. RANSON, who sailed from Yokohama by the Chiyo Maru on June 2d, arrived at New York July 7th.

Kyoto

THE REV. ISAAC DOOMAN, who sailed from Kobe June 19th on special leave by the steamer Empress of Japan, arrived at New York on July 9th.