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charged with the responsibilities of organizing cooperation on the part of the people, and of getting something done by a given day or some plan adhered to for a month must push their measure, energetically and return after to the work. The increased burden thrown upon the people this year by the societies has, of course made the labor greater. But the difficulty of maintaining schools has been greatly enhanced by the drought and short crops of last summer. This cause has not been properly understood by societies, and people at a distance. With one half of the whole 'Hay and staff' of bread cut of, there is not enough left for food and nothing to sell. For a people thus situated to aid their teachers, and help build and repair their school houses, is to bear a vastly heavier burden than any community in a similar condition of poverty, in any northern state is required to bear. The fact that they are being this burden, is much to their credit, and should command both admiration and pity.

School Houses. The cooperation of the people in the erection of school houses is more promptly and readily secured than in