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win many grateful prayers and thoughts out in the Western wilds.

Some few weeks since I was upamong the Yanktons. Their Reservation is on the East side of the Missouri river, about 23 miles below Fort Randall. The Tribe numbers some 2000.  To the efforts of the missionaries is due much of the advancement they have made. Many of the Indians are now living in houses cultivating the land, attending church regularly, & sending their children to school.

Not far from the bluffs of the ever shifting Missouri, stands a cottage with-in a little garden. The flowers bid you welcome before the door is opened, by the Missionary's wife, and the cordial hand grasp